"I've always wanted to design a building- tell me, is it very difficult?", Picasso said to which Corbusier replied: "No! It's easy! Come to my atelier tomorrow and I will show you how."
Although Corbusier saw himself primarily as a painter, no one of his statures had ever designed to visit one of his painting exhibitions. So he went up to Picasso and they started this extraordinary conversation.
Corbusier's confidence is understandable. After all, hadn't he taught himself architecture-and become the most celebrated and influential architect of the century? And rightly so- for his natural gifts for architecture were so sensational, he could understand effortlessly what needed to be done. That is to say, he was a great sculptor who understood that architecture is sculpture, but with the gestures of human occupation as an integral part of the abstraction.
Although Corbusier saw himself primarily as a painter, no one of his statures had ever designed to visit one of his painting exhibitions. So he went up to Picasso and they started this extraordinary conversation.
Corbusier's confidence is understandable. After all, hadn't he taught himself architecture-and become the most celebrated and influential architect of the century? And rightly so- for his natural gifts for architecture were so sensational, he could understand effortlessly what needed to be done. That is to say, he was a great sculptor who understood that architecture is sculpture, but with the gestures of human occupation as an integral part of the abstraction.
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