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
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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.
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When does a building actually become a built?
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The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
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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.
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You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
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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.
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The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
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