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and expressed the spirit of the time. There
seemed to be a strong creative power in the air.
But
the gods of architecture were dead: only imitative art from old Rome, neo-classicism.
And
from now on during the Romantic time and the whole nineteen century, we see
fairy play with architectural forms. All the styles, antique, Romanesque,
Gothic, Renaissance from here and Renaissance from there, towers, pinnacles,
crenulations, all dancing together in this fairy play. Imitation is fashion of
the time. Imitation in style, imitation in material, imitation in construction.
The logic and the meaning of style was entirely lost.
And
I ask: “Is this our tradition? Are we going to build our contemporary
architecture on forms that do not mean anything?”
No!!!
If
we have to find our tradition from our ancestors, we have to go to a time when
art was still creative art, in the Greek architecture and the Gothic time.
But
what is our tradition and what is our wisdom from the Greek architecture?
The
Greek architects tell us: our tradition comes from Egypt. They had a dualistic
construction, the support and the weight, the column and the architrave. We
used this principle because it was practical for our purpose. But they had
their own fundamental form. It would have been easy for us to use their form,
but it would have been a lie. Art has to speak truth as well as man has! So we
had to use our own fundamental form and develop through it a style of our own. Our
architecture has been admired for thousands of years because it is truthful in form
and truthful in expression. This is our advice to you and this is your
tradition from our art: Be truthful in form and expression, and the future will
admire your work.
The
Gothic architects tell us: our tradition comes through the Romanesque and
through the Christian architecture from old Rome. We accepted the Roman
plan-form because it was practical for our purpose. We found the pointed arch
in the Orient and we adopted it because it was practical for our high windows. But
we had our own fundamental form, and it governed our architecture. Look at our
lofty vaults and buttresses; look at our high towers. The whole is a logical
organism; it rises from the bottom to the top, stone built upon stone. You can
feel the power go through the material and you can follow the power line the
whole way to the top. It is truthful in material and truthful in construction and
therefore our architecture has been admired for centuries. This is our advice
to you and this is your tradition from our art: Be truthful in material and construction
and the future will admire your work. Be truthful in form and in expression. Be
truthful in material and in construction. This is our tradition and this is our
ethics.
Our time is quite different from the
earlier times:
We
have become more or less international.
Our
time is a machine age.
Science
helps us to feel the construction of the whole universe.
The
form of our life is new.
And the form of our architecture has to be
new if there will be truth in expression.
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