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

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

A house is a machine for living in.

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

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.

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.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.