“Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.”

— Le Corbusier

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
Context: 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.

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architect, designer, urbanist, and writer 1887–1965

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