Quotes by
Le Corbusier |
1887-1965 , Swiss-French architect
Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, he was a pioneering Swiss-French architect, designer, and urban planner. A key figure in modern architecture, he championed functional design and innovative materials, creating iconic works like the Villa Savoye and Chandigarh’s urban plan. His Five Points of Architecture and vision of machines for living revolutionized 20th-century design.
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Quotations
| • | If the sun enters the house, it also enters a little into your soul. 5 |
| • | The house is a machine for living in. 5 |
| • | A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe. 3 |
| • | An object placed in the center of a room often spoils the room, for it hinders you from standing in the middle. 2 |
| • | The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. 2 |
| • | By law, all buildings should be white. 2 |
| • | Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. 2 |
| • | To create architecture is to create order. Put what in order? Function and objects. 2 |
| • | What modern man wants is a monk’s cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. 1 |
| • | Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. 1 |
