Le Corbusier frasi celebri
Origine: Citato in Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci, Electa, p. 6. ISBN 88-435-4263-X
uomo spirituale
Origine: Citato in Daniel Chenut, Ipotesi per un Habitat contemporaneo, Il saggiatore Alberto Mondadori Editore, 1968, p. 9.
Origine: Da Vers une Architecture – Verso una Architettura, Longanesi &C. editore, Milano, IV edizione 1992, p. 9.
“L'uomo abita male, questa è la ragione vera e profonda dei rivolgimenti attuali.”
Origine: Citato in Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci, Electa, p. 191. ISBN 88-435-4263-X
Origine: Citato in Lotus, n. 135, dicembre 2008.
Le Corbusier Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Citato in Ernest O. Hauser, Un creatore del nostro tempo, Selezione dal Reader's Digest, aprile 1964.
Origine: Citato in Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci, Electa, p. 77. ISBN 88-435-4263-X
“[Sulla Piazza Vecchia di Bergamo] Non si può più toccare neppure una pietra, sarebbe un delitto.”
Origine: Citato in Marco Valsecchi, Il Giorno, 2 giugno 1971; riportato in ArchitettiRoma.it http://www.architettiroma.it/archivio.aspx?id=4299.
“Una casa è una macchina per abitare.”
Origine: Da Vers une architecture.
Origine: Citato da Tiziana Sallese in L'Eco di Bergamo, 10 aprile 2004; riportato in ArchitettiRoma.it http://www.architettiroma.it/archivio.aspx?id=4299.
Le Corbusier: Frasi in inglese
The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)
Attributed from posthumous publications
“The age of personal statues is gone.”
"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
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
"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
“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
That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet by Jean Jenger (1996).
Attributed from posthumous publications
