Le Corbusier Quotes

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

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

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

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

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

Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

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

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Architecture is crystallized music.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

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

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.