" Classical and Romantic. The classically disposed spirits no less than those romantically inclined -as these two species
always exist- carry a vision of the future: but the former out of the strength of their time: the latter out of weakness.
" Friedrich Nietzsche, " The Wanderer and His Shadow "
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Villa for Lord Rothschild in Corfu by Leon Krier (with Liam O'Connor)
TEMENOS
" The Classical was never intended to represent things as they are...It was a proposal of what could be."
C.Domus Aurea
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Center for Classical Studies, Nisyros, Greece by Deupi Economakis Architects
For centuries classical architecture, due to its vernacular (archetypical) origins, was capable of conveying meaning to a
wide audience. What was that meaning? -It answered the elemental human question- what is our placement in the cosmos? Order
-the fundamental need for mankind to fathom and order his chaotic surrounds. Nature (taxis) -mastery of the persistent physical
laws of mechanics, a capacity to shelter oneself from the elements, using primarily structural relationships (tectonics),
a place of order between earth and sky.
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Colonnade of the British Museum in London
Man, between God and Creation -a statement for the triumph of humanity over his surrounds- a place for him in the chaotic
scheme of things -a place of comprehension, a place approaching perfection. The universe remodeled on Human terms. A statement
of confidence about Humanity's place in the Cosmos, the use of His form, both literal (colum), and abstract (proportions)
-again an ordering of what is found, a place that answers with confidence the existential quandary -where does man fit in?
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Emory University, Dining Hall by Lewis " Buck " Crook, Atlanta
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