Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate. Le Corbusier More Quotes by Le Corbusier More Quotes From Le Corbusier The "styles" are a lie. Le Corbusier style lying Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. Le Corbusier fate mean art The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity. Le Corbusier creating moments creative 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. Le Corbusier simple hands needs Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle. Le Corbusier usa heart two We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination. Le Corbusier planning towns determination By law, all buildings should be white. Le Corbusier building law white Cameras get in the way of seeing. Le Corbusier seeing cameras way The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes. Le Corbusier citizens stones tree Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. Le Corbusier our-world house world When does a building actually become a built? Le Corbusier building architecture doe It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. Le Corbusier social-unrest roots today Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. Le Corbusier unhappiness style eye The city that has speed has success. Le Corbusier speed cities The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers. Le Corbusier wall simple play My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry. Le Corbusier research principles feelings Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world. Le Corbusier cities beautiful world A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier design new-york beautiful Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible. Le Corbusier machines sacrifice order The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals. Le Corbusier planning citizens cities