Le Corbusier Quotes

• Architecture provides the framework for a civilization (housing, work, leisure, circulation); so architecture is also town planning. It is no longer possible to separate architecture and town planning—they are one and the same thing.

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• The day consists of twenty-four hours only. This regulates the size of the house and the ro“ le it has to fulfil. For the twenty-four hour day is short, and our acts and thoughts are spurred on by time. If we were taught to regard the hand of the clock as a beneficent but implacable god, we should order our lives more rationally.

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

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• To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

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• The home should be the treasure chest of living

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• Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

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

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• The home should be the treasure chest of living.

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• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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• A house is a machine for living in.

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Birth:	6th October, 1887
Death:	27th August, 1965
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Architect, Writer

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