An excerpt from Le Corbusier’s “L’Espace Indicible” from 1945

“[…] Action of the work (architecture, painting or sculpture) on around: waves, shouts or cries (the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens), spouting lines such as radiation, operated as an explosive: the site near or far is shaken, affected, dominated or caressed. Reaction of the medium: the walls of the room, its dimensions, the square with the weight of its various fronts, bodies or slopes of the landscape and even the bare horizon of the plains or mountains with their tensions, the whole atmosphere influenced in this place is a work of art, indicating a willingness of man, imposing its depths or its projections, its hard or fuzzy densities, its violence or its sweetness […].”