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June 23, 2007
Le Corbusier on Art & Architecture
On Thursday, this inspiring quote came across my desk at Design Kompany--it's an extended block of text authored by French-Swiss architecture guy Le Corbusier--
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is Construction Ingenuity 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.
My house is practical. I thank you, as I might thank Railway engineers, or the Telephone service. You have not touched my heart.
But suppose that the walls rise toward heaven in such a way that I am moved. I perceive your intentions. Your mood has been gentle, brutal, charming or noble. The stones you have created tell me so. You fix me to the place and my eyes regard it. They behold something which expresses a thought. A thought which reveals itself without word or sound, but solely by means of shapes which stand in a certain relationship to one another. These shapes are such that they are clearly revealed in light. The relationships between them have not necessarily any reference to what is practical or descriptive. They are a mathematical creation of your mind. They are the language of Architecture.
By the use of raw materials and starting from conditions more or less utilitarian, you have established certain relationships which have aroused my emotions. This is Architecture. -Le Corbusier
Posted by Dipika at June 23, 2007 4:11 PM
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