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date: 16 March 2025

Le Corbusier 1887–1965
French architect 

  1. A house is a machine for living in.
    Vers une architecture (1923); see Tolstoy
  2. A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
    When the Cathedrals were White (1947) ‘The Fairy Catastrophe’
  3. The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
    in Times 1965