Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
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Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois."
Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light."
Aldo Rossi
Architect
"One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city"
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"Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters."
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"If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
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"What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state."
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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
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"Space is the breath of art."
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"A building is not just a place to be but a way to be."
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"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that."
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"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
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"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
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"If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration."
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"The future of architecture is culture."
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"The only thing wrong with architecture is architects."
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"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
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"For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element."
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"Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case."
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"A good sketch is better than a long speech."
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"Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music."
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"Architecture is art, nothing else."
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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
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"The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture."
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