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    A house is a machine for living in.

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

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    Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

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

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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 light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

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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 light: light and shade reveal these forms.

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

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    Cameras get in the way of seeing.

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    Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

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    Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

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

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

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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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    Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

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

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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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    Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

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

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    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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    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.

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    The home should be the treasure chest of living.

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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: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

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    The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

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

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

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    The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

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    To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

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

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

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    Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

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    We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

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    When does a building actually become a built?

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    You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. 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.

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

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    Arhitectura are un alt sens și alte scopuri decât doar de a scoate în evidență construcția și de a răspunde unor necesități. Arhitectura este arta prin excelență, care atinge starea de măreție platoniciană, de ordine matematică, de speculație spirituală, de percepere a armoniei prin raporturi emoționale. Iată scopul arhitecturii.