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  • Architecture provides the framework for a civilization (housing, work, leisure, circulation); so architecture is also town planning. It is no longer possible to separate architecture and town planningtheyare one and the same thing.

    -Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret
      'If I had to teach you architecture'. Collected in Dennis Sharp (ed)  The Rationalists: Theory and Design in the Modern Movement (1978).

  •    I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

    - Pierre Auguste Renoir
    Quoted inJean Renoir Renoir, My Father (translated by R and D Weaver,1962).

  • The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatlyassists the circulation of their blood.

    - Logan Pearsall Smith
    Afterthoughts,'Age and Death'.

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