Sketch of the Primary Geometrical Solids Alongside A View of Ancient Rome

Title: Sketch of the Primary Geometrical Solids Alongside A View of Ancient Rome
Description: A clear aim, the classification of parts, these are a proof of a special turn of mind: strategy, legislation. Architecture is susceptible to these aims, and repays them with interest. The light plays on pure forms, and repays them with interest. Simple masses develop immense surfaces which display themselves with a characteristic variety according as it is a question of cupolas, vaulting, cylinders, rectangular prisms or pyramids. The adornment of the surfaces is of the same geometrical order. The Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Aqueducts, the Pyramid of Cestius, the Triumphal Arches, the Basilica of Constantine, the Baths of Caracalla.
Designer: Le Corbusier
Date: 1923
Bibliographic Citation: Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture. Payson and Clarke, Limited, 1927

Media: Sketch of the primary geometrical solids alongside a view of ancient Rome