Le Corbusier Quotes

“With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In India, he charmed a powerful provincial family and ended up making huge, sculptural relics in Chandigarh.”
― Masato Otaka

“Despite the imagery, Le Corbusier sees himself as a technical genius and demands power in the name of his truths. Technocracy, in this instance, is the belief that the human problem of urban design has a unique solution, which an expert can discover and execute. Deciding such technical matters by politics and bargaining would lead to the wrong solution. As there is a single, true answer to the problem of planning the modern city, no compromises are possible”
― James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

“Le Corbusier made architecture seem easy. His mind was focused. His lines are fecund and lean. His circles weave tabular cones of early morning facial grimaces. His buildings are magnificent. My spirit revolts positively whenever I muse over the masterpieces he left behind. He held his breath on rotund glimpses that stretched out in mirrors so sopping that they simply diffuse distortions. He truly was the architect of his own breathtaking designs. Impeccably talented.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality.”
― James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

“Commentators like the historian Cathy Gere have repeatedly pointed out that the “restored” Minoan palace came to resemble modernist works—Lenin’s Mausoleum or Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy.”
― Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins