Le Corbusier Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Architecture

  Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

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

  Le Corbusier

  Lying, Talking, Drawing

• 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.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Art, House

  Le Corbusier (1931). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.203, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Le Corbusier

  Eye, Light, Play

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.29, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Le Corbusier

  Heart, Usa, Two

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

  Le Corbusier

  Order, Design, Architecture

  Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

• A house is a machine for living in.

  Le Corbusier

  Life, Home, House

  Vers une Architecture ch. 1 (1923)

• The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

  Le Corbusier

  Struggle, Light, Architecture

• Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

  Le Corbusier

  Architecture, Chairs, Sofas

• The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

  Le Corbusier

  Moving, Together, Purpose

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.19, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

• When does a building actually become a built?

  Le Corbusier

  Doe, Architecture, Building

• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

  Le Corbusier

  Social Unrest, Roots, Today

  1923 Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

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