Le Corbusier
Pioneer of modern architecture
Most quoted
"The architect, by his arrangement of forms, realizes an order which is a pure creation of his spirit; by forms and shapes he affects our senses to produce plastic emotions; by the relationships which he creates, he awakens in us profound echoes, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in accordance with that of our world, he determines the various movements of our heart and of our understanding; it is then that we experience the sense of beauty."
— from Towards a New Architecture, 1923
"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 without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms."
— from Towards a New Architecture, 1923
"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 without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms."
— from Towards a New Architecture, 1923
All quotes by Le Corbusier (365)
The city must be a place of movement and circulation.
The machine is a tool for progress.
The house is a place of beauty and simplicity.
The architect is a creator of environments.
The city must be a place of green spaces and nature.
The straight line is the line of the future.
The house should be a place of light and transparency.
The architect is a problem solver, a designer of solutions.
The city must be a place of efficiency and functionality.
The machine is a tool for human progress and well-being.
The house is a place of harmony and balance.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and concrete, in that order and that order only.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Cars are the chariots of the twentieth century.
Architecture is the starting point for anyone who wants to understand life.
I am only a painter who turned architect.
The city is the place of maximum opportunity.
Standardization is admirable. But only if it is based on reason.
Contemporaries of Le Corbusier
Other Architectures born within 50 years of Le Corbusier (1887–1965).