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

— Le Corbusier Attributed

Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.

Original text (French)

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Source and credibility

Wikiquote lists this as attributed to Le Corbusier, but no primary source has been found.

Source: Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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