The architectural benefits of absolutism:
Engraving of Louis XIV ordering the building of Les Invalides in 1672 by R. Bonnard, reproduced in Le Corbusier’s The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning, 1925:
‘He was able to say, “We wish it.” Or “Such is our pleasure.” ’
We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the buildings we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.
‘As islet after islet was built upon, we should have grudged it but little’:
The lagoons that ring Venice
Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon, Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, 1430
Acknowledgements
With special thanks to: Simon Prosser, Juliette Mitchell, Francesca Main, Helen Fraser, Tom Weldon, Steve Marking, Mary-Jane Gibson, Thomas Manss, Lisa Sjukur, Joana Niemeyer, Kelvin Murray, Miriam Gross, Dorothy Straight, Dan Frank, Nicole Aragi, Neil Crombie, Caroline Dawnay, Charlotte and Samuel.
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