Le Corbusier Quotes - Page 2

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

When does a building actually become a built?

The city that has speed has success.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

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.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

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.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

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.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.