Le Corbusier Quote by Laura Spinney

“We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the future: is…

— Tom McDonough

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later…

— Santiago Calatrava

“It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green…

— George Eliot

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I…

— Emilio Ambasz

“They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of…

— Tom Wolfe

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated…

— James Howard Kunstler

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution.…

— Leon Krier

“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so…

— Elaine Sciolino

“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...”

— Tim Winton

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“Corvino, whose contribution is—like its author—sophisticated, civil, and well-informed.”

— John Corvino

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

— Evelyn Waugh