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
our-world house world
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
life home house
A house is a machine for living in.
cities waiting house
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
beautiful art house
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.
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.
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.
new-york cities manhattan
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
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.