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This fundamental form is the attractive
power which leads the art development towards a coming style. We have many
kinds of individuals, but only those individuals, who feel the fundamental form
of our time and who can express it in an adequate architectural language are
our leaders. And the strongest of them will remain as milestones in the history
of architecture.
That
is so in every art.
But
more in architecture than in other arts the outline of the individual
disappears when the time passes by and the spirit of the time comes in the
foreground.
When
we study sculpture, we like to know the name behind the sculpture. When we
study painting, we like we know who is the master and we name the painting
after the master: a Rembrandt, a Van Dyck, and EI Greco. When we read
literature, and go so far in the past as to the antique literature, we still
like to know the name of the author.
But
when we go to a town in France, Germany or Italy, we are not so much concerned
with the name of the architect. We say: “This is twelfth century; this is
thirteenth century.” The spirit of the time speaks to us. And we feel the
spirit of the time not only in the forms of the architecture, but we feel the
spirit of the time in the entirely of life through the forms of the
architecture. This because the whole life was conducted by the fundamental form
of the time.
The
fundamental for of the time was the real leader.
What
it is, we do not know. Its influence comes through intuition, and it has to be
felt with intuition.
In
studying the architecture of old Greece, their sculpture, their painting, their
crafts, in studying their philosophy, literature, drama, their whole life with
customs, dresses and even their movements, as far as we can study them from
their paintings and their sculptures, we feel how everything is especially
Greek, and only Greek. There is something which draws everything together and
forms it to an entire world for itself.
If
we take something from Greek culture and compare it with the culture of Old
Egypt, we will find that it is strange there. It does not fit. It does not fit,
because the fundamental form of Egypt vibrates differently than the fundamental
form of Greece.
Compare
Romanesque, Gothic Assyrian and Chinese forms with each other. And we see how
each one has built his own world of forms. Each one has his own fundamental
tune. No one can imitate the other, it would sound false. Each of those great
cultural epochs has had creative power to build its culture in an expressive
style of its own through a fine sense for its fundamental form.
Now,
if we compare our attempts to develop a contemporary architecture of today with
those great epochs of the past, we have to ask: “Does the fundamental form of
our day conduct our movement, or do we still wander in darkness? Where do we
find our leaders?”
The
same question is asked in other arts.
Who
is the leader of music today? Is it Debussy? Is it Stravinsky? Is it Sibelius?
In
painting we have had in a few decades Impressionists, Symbolists, Pointillists,
Cubists and so on. Each one thought it had found the key of the time.
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