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
creating creative moments
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
lying style
The "styles" are a lie.
home treasure should
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
architect knows
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
order design architecture
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
life home house
A house is a machine for living in.
heart cities cosmos
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.
fighting revolution states
You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
art mean fate
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
lying talking drawing
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
struggle light architecture
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
architecture chairs sofas
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
cities waiting house
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
men creating joy
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.