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Saturday, May 28, 2011

LE CORBUSIER in TIME

Le Corbusier

He was convinced that the bold new industrial age  required an equally audacious style of architecture. And who better to  design it than him?

By WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI

his MAJOR WORK

 
'The 'Styles' are a lie'

ALVARO SIZA

'What I appreciate and look for most in architecture is clarity and simplism. Simplicity and simplism are known to be opposites, just as unity and diversity are not. Simplicity results from the control of complexity and the contradictions of any programme. Complexity and internal contradictions - external, also, when a new structure is confronted with what preceeded and what surrounds it, taking on a not necessarily predictable destiny. For this reason, the more character a building has and the clearer its form, the more flexible its vocation.'