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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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–Le Corbusier
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Architect Le Corbusier sitting in chair & holding book in hands-- Paris France 1965.
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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
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–Le Corbusier
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Architect Le Corbusier working on project for French ministry of reconstruction in his Paris atelier-- Paris, France 1965.
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“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
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–Le Corbusier
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Architect Le Corbusier sitting in chair with book in hands, glasses perched on his forehead-- Paris, France 1965.
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“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
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–Le Corbusier
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Swiss architect Le Corbusier leaning down to write w. his glasses pushed back on his forehead-- Venice, Italy 1952.
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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
–Le Corbusier
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