Sky Quotes by Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

By law, all buildings should be white.

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

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

— Le Corbusier

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

— Le Corbusier

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

— Le Corbusier