Le Corbusier Quotes

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

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

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Beautiful