LE CORBUSIER

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

A house is a machine for living in.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

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.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

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.

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

The city that has speed has success.