“You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.”

—  Le Corbusier

Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.
Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]
Attributed from posthumous publications

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Vous savez, c'est toujours la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.

Réponse rapportée de Le Corbusier, informé du fait que la cité Frugès à Pessac qu'il avait conçue a été modifiée par ses habitants.
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Variant: Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.

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