And I oppose:
Classical, solemn, hieratic, scenographic, decorative, monumental, graceful, and pleasing architecture;
Embalming, rebuilding, reproducing monuments;
Perpendicular and horizontal lines, cubical and pyramidal forms that are static, grave, oppressive, and wholly incompatible with our ultra-new sensibility
And I declare:
That real architecture is not for these reasons an arid combination of practicality and utility, but remains art, that is, synthesis, expression
From the Messaggio 1914
