Architecture Quote by Le Corbusier Download Open image “The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.” — Le Corbusier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Construction Engineering Moving Purpose Together
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life. — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive solution you… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress 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