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Le Corbusier

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


— Le Corbusier


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


— Le Corbusier


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


— Le Corbusier


#detritus #philosophy #stardust #architecture

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


— Le Corbusier


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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.


— Le Corbusier


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


— Le Corbusier


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


— Le Corbusier


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A house is a machine for living in.


— Le Corbusier


#house #living #machine

The home should be the treasure chest of living.


— Le Corbusier


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About Le Corbusier

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Did you know about Le Corbusier?

Le Corbusier Promenade a promenade along the water at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Visitors may find his grave site in the cemetery above Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in between Menton and Monaco in southern France. La Ville radieuse also marks Le Corbusier's increasing dissatisfaction with capitalism and his turn to the right-wing syndicalism of Hubert Lagardelle.

He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s allegedly deriving it in part from the name of an ancestor "Lecorbésier.

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