11 Quotes & Sayings By Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland in 1887, son of a flower painter. He studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of several other European Expressionist painters, including Marc Chagall. Having completed his studies in 1910, he devoted his life to architecture. His first marriage was to an Austrian woman, who died giving birth to their son Read more

Corbusier married Marie-Louise Othonie Portalis in 1917, with whom he had three children. His work took him all over the world, including India and Japan. He died in 1965 at the age of ninety-two.

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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier
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The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy. Le Corbusier
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Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. Le Corbusier
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The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity. Le Corbusier
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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
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier
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A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. Le Corbusier
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. Le Corbusier
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The home should be the treasure chest of living. Le Corbusier