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

— Le Corbusier Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)

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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.

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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.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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