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Le Corbusier has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
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Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides…
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
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Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in…
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By law, all buildings should be white.
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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When does a building actually become a built?
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The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods:…
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My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
— Le Corbusier
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
— Jane Jacobs
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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black…
— Toni Morrison
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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's…
— Martin Filler
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You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because…
— Gore Vidal
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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…
— Jane Jacobs
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In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
— Willis Polk
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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
— Richard Rogers
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