"The materials of city planning are: sky, space,……" — Le Corbusier
"The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy."
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27 Quotes by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier has 27 quotes on this site.
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
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Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature.…
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see…
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By law, all buildings should be white.
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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When does a building actually become a built?
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The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of…
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My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.
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Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see…
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More Cement Quotes
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one of 148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's…
— Bob Beauprez
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
— Yasser Arafat
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should…
— Paul Farmer
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
— Robert Herrick
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The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
— Drake
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities;…
— James Madison
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The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
— Jim Leach
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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without…
— William Grant Bangerter
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The…
— Canvass White
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