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Taking possession of space is the first gesture of living things, of men and of animals, of plants and of clouds, a fundamental manifestation of equilibrium and of duration. The occupation of space is the first proof of existence.
So opens Le Corbusier's defining essay NEW WORLD OF SPACE. It articulates a particular, at times synesthetic, poetics of spatial domination that fused a Romantic idea of the sublime with the fetishization of proportional harmony. The Parthenon was taken as the ultimate example of this ideal, Corbusier describing it and its relation to the landscape in mythic terms, seeing it as a source of terrifying drama and perfection.
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| Tristram Lansdowne "About Face" |
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