"Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city……" — Le Corbusier
"Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds."
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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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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
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