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Le Corbusier Quotes
Birthday: | October 6, 1887 |
Birthplace: | La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
Death: | August 27, 1965 |
Manner of Death: | Accident |
Nationality: | France, Switzerland |
Occupations: | Painter, Urban Planner, Writer, Architect |
Total quotes: 2
Le Corbusier
BirthnameBirthday: October 6, 1887
Birthplace: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Death: August 27, 1965
Manner of Death: Accident
Nationality: France, Switzerland
Occupations: Painter, Urban Planner, Writer, Architect
Total quotes: 2
“We are to be pitied for living in unworthy houses, since they ruin our health and our morale. It is our lot to have become sedentary creatures; our houses gnaw at us in our sluggishness, like a consumption. We shall soon need far too many sanatoriums. We are to be pitied. Our houses disgust us; we fly from them and frequent restaurants and night clubs; or we gather together in our houses gloomily and secretly like wretched animals; we are becoming demoralized.”
Tagged:
Architecture
“Let us shut our eyes to what exists.
A house: a shelter against heat, cold, rain, thieves and the inquisitive. A receptacle for light and sun. A certain number of cells appropriated to cooking, work, and personal life.
A room: a surface over which one can walk at ease, a bed on which to stretch yourself, a chair in which to rest or work, a work-table, receptacles in which each thing can be put at once in its right place.
The number of rooms: one for cooking and one for eating. One for work, one to wash yourself in and one for sleep.
Such are the standards of dwelling.
Then why do we have the enormous and useless roofs on pretty suburban villas? Why the scanty windows with their little panes; why large houses with so many rooms locked up? Why the mirrored wardrobes, the washstands, the commodes? And then, why the elaborate bookcases? the consoles, the china cabinets, the dressers, the sideboards? Why the enormous glass chandeliers? The mantelpieces? Why the draped curtains? Why the damasked wall-papers thick with colour, with their motley design?
Daylight hardly enters your homes. Your windows are difficult to open. There are no ventilators for changing the air such as we get in any dining-car. Your chandeliers hurt the eyes. Your imitation stone stucco and your wall-papers are an impertinence, and no good modern picture could ever be hung on your walls, for it would be lost in the welter of your furnishings.”
Tagged:
Architecture
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