Architecture Quote by Le Corbusier Download Open image “The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.” — Le Corbusier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Architecture History History History Architecture History Struggle Inspirational Light Struggle Struggle Light
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
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 Image
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
