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… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two… — Le Corbusier Copy Share
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination. — Le Corbusier Copy Share
The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of… — Le Corbusier Copy Share
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 Copy Share
