Le Corbusier Quotes
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Le Corbusier Quotes & Sayings
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
— Le Corbusier
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
— Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
— Le Corbusier
By law, all buildings should be white.
— Le Corbusier
When does a building actually become a built?
— Le Corbusier
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
— Le Corbusier
Cameras get in the way of seeing.
— Le Corbusier
The house is a machine for living in.
— Le Corbusier
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
— Le Corbusier
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
— Le Corbusier
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
— Le Corbusier
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
— Le Corbusier
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
— Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
— Le Corbusier
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the lifethe poetry. — Le Corbusier
The "styles" are a lie.
— Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in.
— Le Corbusier
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
— Le Corbusier
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
— Kenzo Tange
