Quotes by Le Corbusier

About Le Corbusier:

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris 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.
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in.

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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

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A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que "l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été taxé de "poète", avec dédain

Le Corbusier

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Le Corbusier

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

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L'architecture arabe nous donne un enseignement précieux. Elle s'apprécie à la marche, avec le pied : c'est en marchant, en se déplaçant que l'on voit se développer les ordonnances de l'architecture. C'est un principe contraire à l'architectur...

Le Corbusier

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

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The home should be the treasure chest of living.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameLe Corbusier
  • Descriptionarchitect, designer, urbanist, and writer
  • AliasesCharles-Édouard Jeanneret
  • BornOctober 6, 1887
  • DiedAugust 27, 1965
  • CountrySwitzerland
  • ProfessionArchitect; Painter; Writer; Urban Planner
  • WorksNotre Dame Du Haut; Villa Savoye; Unité D'Habitation
  • AwardsAIA Gold Medal; Royal Gold Medal; Frank P. Brown Medal