The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

By law, all buildings should be white.

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

A house is a machine for living in.