Source: When the cathedrals were white
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Famous Le Corbusier Quotes
Source: When the cathedrals were white
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.”
Source: When the cathedrals were white
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.”
Source: When the cathedrals were white
“The city that has speed has success.”
Source: Urbanisme, Algiers, and other buildings and projects, 1930-1933
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
Source: Opus 1, Le Corbusier
“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.”
Source: The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
“Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
Source: 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
Source: The modulor: a harmonious measure to the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and mechanics
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.”
“You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.”
“Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
“The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.”
“You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture