"You know, it is life that is right……" — Le Corbusier
"You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong."
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27 Quotes by Le Corbusier
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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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