Le Corbusier

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

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies.

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

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

A house is a machine for living in.

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

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

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

Allow me to state here how much I love Barcelona an admirable city a city full of life intense a port open to the past and future.