Le Courbusier did say, Une maison est une machine-à-habiter. A house is a machine for living in. Too bad people, perhaps those in charge of those housing

Le Courbusier did say, Une maison est une machine-à-habiter. A house is a machine for living in. Too bad people, perhaps those in charge of those housing estates, seem not to read further in the same work: 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.