Le Corbusier Quotes

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• Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
• Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
• The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places…
• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
• The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and…
• By law, all buildings should be white.
• To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
• When does a building actually become a built?
• 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…
• My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.
• Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and…
• 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.
• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
• The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
• You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

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