ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on architects of wide-ranging persuasions of the twentieth century -for example, Peter Eisenman, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron and Charles Correa - whose works defy categorisation under simple binary oppositions. It extends the study of the fragmentary nature of the site by considering Le Corbusier's construction of site at the Capitol in Chandigarh, India. The book highlights the importance of edge conditions as the key facilitator for achieving interrelationship between sites, as well as between architectural objects. It considers more carefully the role of planimetric drawing and composition in achieving meaningful relationships between building and site and between site and its wider context. The book discusses the importance of reciprocity between interior and exterior spaces - between fragment and the whole - to achieve optimum integrity between site and context at differing scales.
