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

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.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

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

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

Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

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