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" I
am a southerner, very deeply. In the course of my life I became a man
from everywhere. I travelled throughout continents. I have one deep
root : the Mediterranean.
The sea is movement, never ending horizon. I find my sources and my
recreations in the sea that I have always loved. ”
Le Corbusier
Le
Corbusier and the golden section.
To build the Radiant City in Marseilles, Le Corbusier used a Modulor
(module and or which means gold) a tool he invented. In
architecture, a module is a measure used to study the proportions between
the different parts of, a building. In Mathematics, one refers to
the golden section, a section that makes it possible to reach an harmony.
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Mediterranean, the Queen of forms
and light
" Light
and space. The fact, it’s my contact in 1910 in Athens. Decisive light.
Decisive volume : the Acropolis. My first picture painted in 1918,
“the chimney” it’s Acropolis. My
living unity in Marseilles is the extension.”
Le Corbusier,
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