23 August 2021

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret - Collected Quotes

"Architecture is the first manifestation of man creating his own universe, creating it in the image of nature, submitting to the laws of nature, the laws which govern our own nature, our universe." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], "Towards a New Architecture", 1923)

"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." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], "Towards a New Architecture", 1923)

"The Engineer, inspired by the law of Economy and governed by mathematical calculation, puts us in accord with universal law. He achieves harmony." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], Towards a New Architecture, 1923)

"There is one profession and one only, namely architecture, in which progress is not considered necessary, where laziness is enthroned, and in which the reference is always to yesterday." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], Towards a New Architecture, 1923)

"Working by calculations, engineers employ geometrical forms, satisfying our eyes by their geometry and our understanding of their mathematics; their work is one the direct line of good art." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], Towards a New Architecture, 1923)

"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning", 1930)

"Mathematics is not a question of calculation perforce but rather the presence of royalty: a law of infinite resonance, consonance and order." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier], "Architecture and the Mathematical Spirit", 1962)

"The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods; the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers." (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret [Le Corbusier])

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