The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, described as one of the pioneers of modern architecture. Born in Switzerland to French-speaking Swiss parents, he took French nationality in 1930 and designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India and the Americas over a five-decade career.
Committed to better living conditions for residents of crowded cities, he was influential in urban planning and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne. He prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India and designed several of its buildings, especially the government buildings. In 2016, seventeen of his projects in seven countries were inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Committed to better living conditions for residents of crowded cities, he was influential in urban planning and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne. He prepared the master plan for the city of Chandigarh in India and designed several of its buildings, especially the government buildings. In 2016, seventeen of his projects in seven countries were inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
A house is a machine for living in.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.