Frases de Le Corbusier

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, mais conhecido pelo pseudónimo de Le Corbusier , foi um arquiteto, urbanista, escultor e pintor de origem suíça e naturalizado francês em 1930. É considerado, juntamente com Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe e Oscar Niemeyer, um dos mais importantes arquitectos do século XX. Conhecido por ter sido o criador da Unité d'Habitation, conceito sobre o qual começou a trabalhar na década de 1920.Aos 29 anos mudou-se para Paris, onde adotou o seu pseudónimo, que foi buscar ao nome do seu avô materno, originário da região de Albi. A sua figura era marcada pelos seus óculos redondos de aros escuros. Morreu por afogamento, em 27 de agosto de 1965. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Outubro 1887 – 27. Agosto 1965
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Le Corbusier Frases famosas

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“A arquitetura é o jogo sábio, correto e magnífico dos volumes dispostos sob a luz.”

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

“A casa é uma máquina de morar.”

Une maison est une machine à habiter.
Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier, éd. G. Crès, 1924, p. 73

“A atual arquitetura cuida da casa, da casa normal e rotineira dos homens normais e rotineiros. Ela largou os palácios. Este é um sinal dos tempos.”

L'architecture actuelle s'occupe de la maison, de la maison ordinaire et courante pour hommes normaux et courants. Elle laisse tomber les palais. Voilà un signe des temps.
Vers une architecture , Le Corbusier, éd. Rumo a uma arquitetura, Le Corbusier, ed. G. Crès, 1924, p. CRES, 1924, p. V

““Cem vezes pensei que Nova York é uma catástrofe; cinqüenta vezes, que é uma bonita catástrofe.“”

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe
When the cathedrals were white - página 90, Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier - McGraw-Hill, 1964 - 217 páginas

Le Corbusier: Frases em inglês

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)
Attributed from posthumous publications

“The age of personal statues is gone.”

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
Contexto: The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.

“Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.”

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
Contexto: Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

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

When the Cathedrals Were White http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwVAAAAMAAJ&q="A+hundred+times+I+have+thought+New+York+is+a+catastrophe+and+fifty+times+it+is+a+beautiful+catastrophe"#search_anchor (1947)
Attributed from posthumous publications

“A house is a machine for living in.”

Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

“You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.”

Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.
Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]
Attributed from posthumous publications

“The "styles" are a lie.”

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

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