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Architecture Is The Masterly, Correct And Magnificent Play Of Masses Brought Together In Light. Our Eyes Are Made To See Forms In Light; Light And Shade Reveal These Forms; Cubes, Cones, Spheres, Cylinders Or Pyramids Are The Great Primary Forms Which Light Reveals To Advantage; The Image Of These Is Distinct And Tangible Within Us Without Ambiguity. It Is For This Reason That These Are Beautiful Forms, The Most Beautiful Forms. Everybody Is Agreed To That, The Child, The Savage And The Metaphysician.

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.

My Research Is Like My Feeling Directed Towards What Is The Principal Value In The Life, The Poetry.

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.

Our Own Epoch Is Determining, Day By Day, Its Own Style. Our Eyes, Unhappily, Are Unable Yet To Discern It.