Eugéne Viollet-le-Duc. The First Condition of Design is to Know...

..."The first condition of design is to know what we have to do; to know what we have to do is to have had an idea; and to express this idea we must have principles and a form, that is, grammar and a language..."
Eugéne Viollet-le-Duc, Discourses on Architecture, Boston 1876
Extracto seleccionado por William Curtis en "Le Corbusier, Ideas and Forms", 1986.
Editado por el arq. Martín Lisnovsky