"My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with happiness, with a contented existence, with harmony. My own goal is to establish or re-establish harmony between people and their environment."
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Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet by Jean Jenger (1996).
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