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Y o u r works will then be able to take their place in the framework o f the period and you will everywhere be admitted and understood. Tell yourselves that architecture has indeed need of your attention. D o not forget the problem o f architecture. PISA GRAIN ELEVATOR THREE REMINDERS TO ARCHITECTS I 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 worh^ is on the direct line of good art.
It is determined by the famous landscape which stretches from the Piraus to Mount Pentelicus. The scheme was designed to be seen from a distance : the axes follow the valley and the false right angles are contrived with the skill of a first-rate stage manager. The Acropolis set on its rock and on its sustaining walls, seen from afar appears as one solid block. The buildings are massed together in accordance with the incidence of their varying plans. conceived and planned throughout their entire extent in same way as were planned the temples o f the East and as Invalides or the Versailles o f Louis X I V were laid out.
SECOND REMINDER : SURFACE Architecture being the masterly, correct and magnificent play o f masses brought together in light, the task o f the archi tect 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 o w n advantage : the sad story o f our present-day work. T o leave a mass intact in the splendour o f its form in light, 38 TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE THREE REMINDERS TO ARCHITECTS 39 but, on the other hand, to appropriate its surface for needs which are often utilitarian, is to force oneself to discover in this unavoidable dividing up o f the surface the accusing and generating lines o f the form.