Le Corbusier - Quotations

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  • "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..." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
  • "Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light."
  • "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 house is a machine for living in." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
  • "It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
  • "Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
  • "The 'Styles' are a lie." (Vers une architecture, 1923)
  • "Architecture or revolution. Revolution can be avoided." (Vers une architecture, 1923)

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