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

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

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.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.