THREE REMINDERS TO ARCHITECTS
MASS
Our eyes are constructed to enable us to see forms in light.
Primary forms are beautiful forms because they can be clearly appreciated.
Architects to-day no longer achieve these simple forms.
Working by calculation, engineers employ geometrical forms, satisfying our eyes by their geometry and our understanding by their mathematics; their work is on the direct line of good art.
SURFACE
A mass is enveloped in its surface, a surface which is divided up according to the directing and generating lines of the mass; and this gives the mass its individuality.
Architects to-day are afraid of the geometrical constituents of surfaces.
The great problems of modern construction must have a geometrical solution.
Forced to work in accordance with the strict needs of exactly determined conditions, engineers make use of generating and accusing lines in relation to forms. They create limpid and moving plastic facts.
PLAN
The Plan is the generator.
Without a plan, you have lack of order, and wilfulness
