All Le Corbusier Quotes
- Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. Charnel
- Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world. Beautiful
- It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. Architecture
- 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… Activities
- Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. Both
- The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. Cement
- 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… Advantage
- By law, all buildings should be white. All
- To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. Architecture
- When does a building actually become a built? Actually Become
- 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… Arithmetic
- My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. Directed
- 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… Architecture
- The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. Architecture
- You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions. Fighting
- Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. Ambience
- Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. Architecture
- The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. Architecture
- Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. Cities
- You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong. Architect
- Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. Day
- I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. Architecture
- The home should be the treasure chest of living. Chest
- Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. Bread
- A house is a machine for living in. Architecture