ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the resultant notion of the architect's realm contributed to the Modernist understanding of architecture as a pure form existing in timelessness and immutability. The symbolism in Bruegel's depiction of Icarus's fall has drawn much interest. Dance of Death is a small book comprised of wood engravings by Hans Lutzelberger based on Holbein's drawings. Bernerd Rudofsky's Architecture Without Architects, and Vernacular Architecture Forum, a scholarly organization, are just two examples. Designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, Villa Savoye occupies a highly coveted place not just within modern architecture, but in architectural history as a whole. Le Corbusier and Jeanneret advocate the 'permanent' presence of 'water on the concrete of the roof', for it would keep the temperature fluctuation to a minimum and prevent cracks from developing in the reinforced concrete. Architectural criticism that is devoid of the view of the public is one of the topics Hal Foster discussed in the article 'Architecture, Development, Memory'.
