"My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with ha…"

"The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings cons…"

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

"Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort."

"A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe."

"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to …"

"The "styles" are a lie."

"Une maison est une machine-à-habiter."

"You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ing…"

"It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution."