Creative Quotations from . . .
LeCorbusier
(1887-1965) born on Oct 06
Swiss "architect, city planner". "He pioneered functionalist architecture with the use of reinforced concrete and the concept of a house as a "machine for living.""
 
   
F
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."

R
"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies."
A
"The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy."
N
"Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it."
K
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "On need for spaciously separated skycrapers, recalled on his death 27 Aug 1965."
R: "In "Time," 5 May 1961."
A: "In "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century," by Frank S. Pepper, 1987."
N: ""Toward a New Architecture," ch. 1, "Eyes Which Do Not See," 1923."
K: ""The Fairy Catastrophe," in "When Cathedrals Were White," 1947."



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