Le Corbusier Quotes

Architecture provides the framework for a civilization (housing, work, leisure, circulation); so architecture is also town planning. It is no longer possible to separate architecture and town planning—they are one and the same thing.

The day consists of twenty-four hours only. This regulates the size of the house and the ro“ le it has to fulfil. For the twenty-four hour day is short, and our acts and thoughts are spurred on by time. If we were taught to regard the hand of the clock as a beneficent but implacable god, we should order our lives more rationally.

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