Viollet-le-Duc; he even imagined a situation in which one of the designers of the great Gothic cathedrals had been resuscitated and confronted with a modern building problem and modern means of construction. He argued that the result would not have been an imitation Gothic building, but an authentically modern one based on analogous intellectual procedures.
The past must not be raided for its external effects, then, but for its underlying principles and processes.
(w j r curtis, modern architecture since 1900, 1996)
The past must not be raided for its external effects, then, but for its underlying principles and processes.
(w j r curtis, modern architecture since 1900, 1996)
