Le Corbusier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When does a building actually become a built?

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. _x000D_ But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.

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

A house is a machine for living in.