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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
— Le Corbusier
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Le Corbusier
architect, painter, writer, urban planner, photographer, draftsperson, textile artist, visual artist, designer, sculptor
1887 – 1965
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents, and acquired French nationality by naturalization in 1930. His career spanned five decades, in which he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, as well as North and South America. He considered that "the roots of modern architecture are to be found in Viollet-le-Duc."
All Quotes by Le Corbusier
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
— Le Corbusier
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
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A house is a machine for living in.
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The "styles" are a lie.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in.
— Le Corbusier
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
— Le Corbusier
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
— Le Corbusier
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The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
— Le Corbusier
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
— Le Corbusier
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
— Le Corbusier
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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
— Le Corbusier
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The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.
— Le Corbusier
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The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
— Le Corbusier
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
— Le Corbusier