ABSTRACT
Le Corbusier’s words have set a standard for placing architecture in the landscape. Like the Parthenon, the Maeght Foundation-designed by one of Le Corbusier’s closest friends within the Modern Movement, Josep Lluis Sent-also lies elevated on a hilltop and set against a similar landscape: the sparkling Mediterranean in one direction and hazy, sometimes snow-capped, mountains in the other. Like the Acropolis, it is enclosed by a wall to form a temenos, a space of purity and harmony. André Malraux, in his inaugural speech on 28 July 1964 at the Maeght Foundation, echoes Le Corbusier’s feeling:
It was by a night such as tonight that they listened to the silence which followed the last chisel at the Parthenon.2
