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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)
Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
The Despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan.
La Ville Radieuse [The Radiant City (1933)
A house is a machine for living in.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)
What I saw in Barcelona – Gaudí – was the work of such strength, such faith, of an extraordinary technical capacity, manifested during a whole life of genius; of a man who carved the stones before his eyes in well thought out pattern. Gaudí is the ‘builder’ of the turn of the century, a man adept with stone, iron and brick.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Attributed
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
Attributed
A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
Attributed When the Cathedrals Were White (1947)
My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with happiness, with a contented existence, with harmony. My own goal is to establish or re-establish harmony between people and their environment.
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