Le Corbusier Quotes - Page 2

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• When does a building actually become a built?

  Le Corbusier

  Doe, Architecture, Building

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• Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

  Le Corbusier

  Eye, Style, Unhappiness

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

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• The city that has speed has success.

  Le Corbusier

  Cities, Speed

  Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Fondation Le Corbusier (1983). “Urbanisme, Algiers, and other buildings and projects, 1930-1933”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

  Le Corbusier

  Tree, Citizens, Stones

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

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• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

  Le Corbusier

  Social Unrest, Roots, Today

  1923 Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

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• My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

  Le Corbusier

  Feelings, Principles, Research

  "Le Corbusier: the art of architecture".

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• We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

  Le Corbusier

  Determination, Towns, Planning

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• Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

  Le Corbusier

  Simple, Hands, Needs

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• Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

  Le Corbusier

  Heart, Usa, Two

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• Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

  Le Corbusier

  Our World, House, World

  Le Corbusier (2013). “The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning”, p.244, Courier Corporation

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• Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Cities, World

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• The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

  Le Corbusier

  Wall, Simple, Play

  Le Corbusier (1968). “The modulor: a harmonious measure to the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and mechanics”

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• A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, New York, Design

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• Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

  Le Corbusier

  Sacrifice, Order, Machines

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• Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

  Le Corbusier

  Green, Noise, Reign

  "The Edict of Chandigarh". Plaque erected at Chandigarh, India, as an abbreviated form of the document "The Establishment Statute of the Land", December 17, 1959.

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• The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

  Le Corbusier

  Cities, Citizens, Planning

  "The Edict of Chandigarh". chandigarh.gov.in. December 17, 1959.

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• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

  Le Corbusier

  New York, Cities, Manhattan

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