I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. Le Corbusier More Quotes by Le Corbusier More Quotes From Le Corbusier 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 light sleep men Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier architecture light games To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be. Le Corbusier modern fashion states You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. Le Corbusier house beautiful art 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 light eye play Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. Le Corbusier structure light expression The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. Le Corbusier space sky order The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. Le Corbusier purpose together moving 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 eye beautiful children You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions. Le Corbusier revolution states fighting Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. Le Corbusier sofas chairs architecture Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. Le Corbusier cities waiting house A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier house home life 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. Le Corbusier creating joy men To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. Le Corbusier design architecture order The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. Le Corbusier architecture light struggle 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. Le Corbusier cosmos cities heart The home should be the treasure chest of living. Le Corbusier treasure should home You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong. Le Corbusier architect knows The "styles" are a lie. Le Corbusier style lying
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