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
architecture beautiful bridge regular seems steel
The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh.
determination planning modern
We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.
eye play light
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
order sky cities
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
moving together purpose
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
architecture chairs sofas
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
lying talking drawing
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
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.
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.
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.