ABSTRACT
Le Corbusier conceived Architecture as ‘a wise, concrete and magnificent combination of volumes grouped under light’, implicitly supposing eternal or, at least, sufficient life for them. Fernández-Casado (1975) qualified such an assertion in the sense that ‘it is not a matter of volumes, but masses that weigh and resist; the architecture of engineers is rooted in a cosmic vision, forcing them to an ascetic attitude in relation to Nature, to stoical withstand the attraction of superfluousness; a non-timeless attitude, independent of momentary tendencies’.
