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THREE REMINDERS TO ARCHITECTS
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ARCHITECTURE has nothing to do with the various “styles.”
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The styles of Louis XIV, XV, XVI or Gothic, are to architecture what a feather is on a woman's head; it is sometimes pretty, though not always, and never anything more.
Second Reminder: Surface
Architecture being the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light, the task of the architect is to vitalize the surfaces which clothe these masses, but in such a way that these surfaces do not become parasitical, eating up the mass and absorbing it to their own advantage: the sad story of our present-day work.
To leave a mass intact in the splendour of its form in light,
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