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

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

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

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.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

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

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