Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.
Le CorbusierA hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le CorbusierSpace and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le CorbusierNegro 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.
Le Corbusier