The home should be the treasure chest of living.

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.

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

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

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

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

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.