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This frightful word [function] was born under other skies than those I have loved—those where the sun reigns supreme.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
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Born:
October 6, 1887
Died:
August 27, 1965
(aged 77)
Bio:
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.
Known for:
Villa Savoye
Notre Dame du Haut
Unité d'habitation
Sainte Marie de La Tourette
Curutchet House
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