Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

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.

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

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

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

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

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