“The scientist makes the world available, the artist makes it liveable.”
Mai-Loan Gaudez
“The scientist makes the world available, the artist makes it liveable.”
“The scientist makes the world available, the artist makes it liveable.”
Le Corbusier’s works and thoughts tend to ally both these functions: the architect shall make the world not only available but liveable as well. Bringing back together machinery and life is in my view the point of design: it is working on the esthetic experience of a production based on technical constraints. La villa Savoye impressed me most for its look and its efficience as a building. It is a hymn to modernity, futuristic in its idea of movement, and however so still, tranquil and confident. Le Corbusier used two important expressions for the building: ‘la machine à habiter’ who reminds of Merleau-Ponty’s intuition on art and science, and ‘la promenade architecturale’. This last expression is vibrant and understandable as one visits the inner spaces: mouvements are fluent within the space, which, even though its complexity, is one. The villa is a space designed so one feels he is everywhere at the same time. Open spaces, windows, ramps work together so one being
Merleau-Ponty
78
Mai-Loan Gaudez
79