framework quotes

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).