Architecture Quote by Le Corbusier Download Open image “When does a building actually become a built?” — Le Corbusier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Building Built Doe Engineering Inspirational
Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts? — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“The word “Building” makes a completed structure seem under construction. Once a building is finished, it should be called a “Built.” Similarly, a brick… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. — Rumi Copy Share Image
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
What you spend years building, someone might destroy overnight. Build it anyway. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You always have to start on the foundation, to create the building. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans,… — Paul Goldberger 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
