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Le Corbusier

6 October 1887-27 August 1965

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The Architect is one who has to train a new clientele to 'freely' choose the scientific urban life.

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Architecture is contrasted with construction in that the purpose of construction is to make things hold together while the purpose of architecture is to move us.

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The City is crumbling, it can not last much longer... its time is past. It is too old. The torrent of traffic can no longer keep to its bed.

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The City should grow vertically and that roadways should be separated from pedestrians.

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City planning consists of these materials: sky, space, trees, steel and cement... in that order and that hierarchy.

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Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it necessarily expresses itself by means of system, for there is no work of art without system.

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Kill the street is the idea that urban environments should be defined by a separation of uses rather than taking the form of mixed-use.

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Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.