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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris by Yousuf Karsh in 1954.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris by Yousuf Karsh in 1954.

You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces.  That is construction.  Ingenuity is at work.  But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: “This is beautiful.”  That is Architecture.  Art enters in.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, Vers une Architecture