To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier
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  1. A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

  2. The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

  3. Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

  4. The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.

  5. Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

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