"Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system."
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"The "styles" are a lie."
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"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."
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"The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity."
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"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."
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"Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world."
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"By law, all buildings should be white."
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"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."
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"Cameras get in the way of seeing."
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"Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate."
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"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."
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"It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution."
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"Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs."
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"Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it."
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"My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry."
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"Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds."
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"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
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"We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination."
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"When does a building actually become a built?"
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"The city that has speed has success."
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