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
cities citizens planning
The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.
new-york cities manhattan
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
beautiful cities world
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
heart cities cosmos
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.
cities waiting house
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
order sky cities
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
beautiful new-york design
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
wall simple play
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
eye style unhappiness
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
way cameras seeing
Cameras get in the way of seeing.
feelings principles research
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.
green noise reign
Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
law white building
By law, all buildings should be white.
social-unrest roots today
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.