Gaudi vs Le Corbusier

When Antoni met Charles-Édouard…

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Gaudi: There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature.

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Le Corbusier: A house is a machine for living in. Form follows function. The quickest way from A to B is a straight line. A machine has straight lines.

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Gaudi: It may look like a straight line but there are many corners on the roads to Rome.

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Le Corbusier: Putting it another way, does not this post hold up the wisteria?

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Gaudi: Which is more beautiful: the post or the wisteria?

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Voice-over

There may be no definitive answer here but you might conclude that Gaudi is the wisteria and Le Corbusier was the post?

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Opposite of Hundertwasser?

Hundertwasserhaus

Semantics on an architectural hinge…

Übertreibenmann: I heard even the floors are uneven in Hunderwasserhaus.

Stickler: Not true. The structure is higgledy-piggledy but the floors are flat.

National Museum Western Art

Übertreibenmann: So what’s the opposite of Hundertwasser?

Stickler: A PERSON cannot have an OPPOSITE.

Übertreibenmann: I mean, if his work is so anarchic, what’s an architecture that is totalitarian?

Stickler: Brutalism, I guess. Le Corbusier?

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Voice-over

Stickler’s protest is fair enough. The perfect opposite probably only exists in a world of mathematics. But Übertreibenmann’s contention that CONTRAST can be discerned is also fair enough.

(from Extremes Attract, 2013)