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«A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.»

Eileen Gray (1878-1976)

This statement first appeared in a 1929 special edition of the avant-garde magazine L'Architecture Vivante (Winter 1929), titled "Maison en bord de mer" and written by Eileen Gray in collaboration with her partner at the time, the architect and editor Jean Badovici.
Image: Non Conformist Armchair, Eileen Gray, 1926.

428

«I have discovered the following truth and present it to the world: cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of Ornament from articles in daily use.»

Adolf Loos (1870-1933)

Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime, 1910.

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“No hay geometría sin la palabra. Sin ella, las figuras son accidentes, y no manifiestan ni sirven al poderío del espíritu.”

Paul Valéry

Eupalinos o el arquitecto (1923). Traducción de Josep Carner. Comisión de Cultura del Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos, Galería-Librería Yerba, Colección de Arquilectura nº 5, Consejería de Cultura del Consejo Regional, Murcia, 1982.