Swiss Architect Quotes

Le Corbusier

Johannes Itten

Per definition, architecture is a service for the whole human being. As such, architecture includes a material and an immaterial aspect; it has to meet rational and irrational requirements.

Justus Dahinden

Our engineers are healthy and virile, active and useful, balanced and happy in their work. Our architects are disillusioned and unemployed, boastful or peevish. This is because there will soon be nothing more for them to do. We no longer have the money to erect historical souvenirs. At the same time, we have got to wash!

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Bernard Tschumi

Architecture and psychology suddenly become very close.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

Sigfried Giedion

I am of the opinion that it is possible to develop an art largely on the basis of mathematical thinking.