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Quotes by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier's insights on:
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The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.
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A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our.
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My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life – the poetry.
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Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.
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We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.
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The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh.
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