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

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. — Le Corbusier

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

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier

Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light — Le Corbusier

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

By law, all buildings should be white. — Le Corbusier

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

When does a building actually become a built? — Le Corbusier

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

The home should be the treasure chest of living. — Le Corbusier

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

Cameras get in the way of seeing. — Le Corbusier

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier

The house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier

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

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier

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

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

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

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

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life
the poetry. — Le Corbusier

The "styles" are a lie. — Le Corbusier

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring. — Dieter Rams

A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier

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

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions. — Le Corbusier

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. — Kenzo Tange

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. — Le Corbusier