Unspeakable Space

“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

An Infinite Scream passing through Nature

“I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”

Edward Munch, 1893, quoted here

Araucaria Tree via I'm Revolting

Ernst Haeckel - Siphonophorae - Kunstformen der Natur - 1899/1904

H.P. Berlage - Crown for an Electric Light - Date Unknown - NAI Collection


"The first language of mankind, the most universal and vivid, in a word the only language man needed, before he had occasion to exert his eloquence to persuade assembled multitudes, was the simple cry of nature."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, 1754