Le Corbusier Quotes

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• To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

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  Fashion, Modern, States

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

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  Eye, Light, Play

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

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  Light, Expression, Structure

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• Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

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  Sleep, Men, Light

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
  But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.

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  Beautiful, Art, House

  Le Corbusier (1931). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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  Light, Games, Architecture

  Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

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• A house is a machine for living in.

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  Life, Home, House

  Vers une Architecture ch. 1 (1923)

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• The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

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  Space, Order, Sky

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• The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

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  Moving, Together, Purpose

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

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  Lying, Talking, Drawing

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• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

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  Architecture, Chairs, Sofas

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• You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

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  Fighting, Revolution, States

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• The home should be the treasure chest of living.

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  Home, Treasure, Should

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• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

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  Cities, House, Waiting

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

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  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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• To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

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  Order, Design, Architecture

  Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

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• The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

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  Struggle, Light, Architecture

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• Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

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  Men, Creating, Joy

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• By law, all buildings should be white.

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  Law, White, Building

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• The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

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  Creating, Creative, Moments

  Le Corbusier (1964). “When the cathedrals were white”

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• The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

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  Heart, Cities, Cosmos

  "The Edict of Chandigarh" by Le Corbusier, 1959.

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• You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

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  Architect, Knows

  "Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited". Book by Philippe Boudon, trans. Gerald Onn, 1969.

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• The "styles" are a lie.

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  Lying, Style

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

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  Art, Mean, Fate

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• Cameras get in the way of seeing.

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  Cameras, Way, Seeing

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