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THREE REMINDERS TO ARCHITECTS
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abstraction; it is nothing more than an algebrization and a dry-looking thing. The work of the mathematician remains none the less one of the highest activities of the human spirit.
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SANTA SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE The plan influences the whole structure: the geometrical laws on which it is based and their various modulations are developed in every part of the building.
Arrangement is an appreciable rhythm which reacts on every human being in the same way.
The plan bears within itself a primary and pre-determined rhythm: the work is developed in extent and in height following the prescriptions of the plan, with results which can range from the simplest to the most complex, all coming within the
