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
determination planning modern
We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.
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.
beautiful art house
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.
games light architecture
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
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.
beautiful children eye
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; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.
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.
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.
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.