Building Art

“Creativity, the way I characterize it, is that you’re searching for something. You have a goal. You’re not sure where it’s going. So when I meet with my people and start thinking and making models and stuff, it is like play.”

“employed an original vocabulary of crude industrial materials…arranged into a composition of lopsided cubes, exposed-stud walls, and other unruly shapes,”

Le Corbusier’s early buildings in Paris, the Maison La Roche and the Maison Jeanneret and the Pavillon Suisse, as well as the Villa Savoye in suburban Poissy,

find a fresh and different way of using architecture to produce the sensations of satisfaction, comfort, and pleasure that more traditional buildings did.

the role a spectacular work of architecture could play as a catalyst for economic development.

ability to unite opposites, to pull together different influences,

To him, what he had added to his house was more like an exuberant layer of celebratory form, dancing on the surface of the old house, breaking through its walls, and in the end establishing a content, if unorthodox cohabitation with it.

the design of places for the display of art.

Eckbo’s book Landscape for Living, published in 1950, made a case for closer connections between modern architecture and landscape design, and for most of his life he argued for the possibilities of landscape design as an agent of social change,