Le Corbusier Quotes

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

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

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Architecture is not about form

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

Architecture is invention.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.