“When a
work is at its peak in intensity, proportions, quality of execution, in
perfection,
there occurs a phenomenon of unspeakable space.
The areas start
shining, radiating, physically they radiate.”
Le Corbusier, quoted by Gavin McKeeney
Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula, Mario Romano - Palazzo Della Civiltà - 1938/1943 - by Agugiaro
Aldo Rossi - San Cataldo Cemetary - 1978/? - Picture by Gabriele Basilico 2007
Yi Architects - Stuttgart Municipal Library
"architecture is not simply construction, or even the satisfaction of material needs; it must be something more [...]. Only when a harmony of proportions is reached, inducing the observer to pause in contemplation or emotion--only then will the constructive scheme have become a work of architecture."
Giuseppe Terragni, Caro Guardiano, 23 March 1931
quoted in David Rifkind, The Battle for Modernism, 2013
"architecture is not simply construction, or even the satisfaction of material needs; it must be something more [...]. Only when a harmony of proportions is reached, inducing the observer to pause in contemplation or emotion--only then will the constructive scheme have become a work of architecture."
Giuseppe Terragni, Caro Guardiano, 23 March 1931
quoted in David Rifkind, The Battle for Modernism, 2013