"The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS……" — Le Corbusier

"The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US."

— Le Corbusier

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27 Quotes by Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature.…
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see…
By law, all buildings should be white.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
When does a building actually become a built?
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of…
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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