Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who was better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and the Americas...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth6 October 1887
CountrySwitzerland
life home house
A house is a machine for living in.
order design architecture
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
architect knows
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
home treasure should
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
lying style
The "styles" are a lie.
creating creative moments
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
doe architecture building
When does a building actually become a built?
heart usa two
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.
simple hands tools
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.
beautiful cities world
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
tree citizens stones
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.
social-unrest roots today
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
law white building
By law, all buildings should be white.
feelings principles research
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.