Let us summarize these three points more concisely:(a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair.(b) “Objective” work, undertaken with the silent hope that the end product will nevertheless eventually be regarded as a work of art.(c) Consciously goal-directed work in architecture, which will have a concise artistic effect on the basis of well-preparated objective-scientific criteria. Such an architecture will actively raise the general standard of living. This represents the dialectic of our development process, which purports to arrive at the affirmative by negation – a process similar to melting down old iron and forging it into new steel. El Lissitzky
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The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair: When we say that we value the creative process of architecture instead of the finished product, we may mean that we find value in the experience of creating an object. The meaning of this is that we do not value art for what it is but rather for what it can become. We don’t care about the physical appearance of the object; we care about the ideas that can come from it. We do not judge it by how beautiful or ugly it is in and of itself.

From this perspective, we can see how objects can be valued for their possibilities and not for their appearance. Objective work: A key idea in Le Corbusier’s architecture is known as “objective” work. He believed that only after the architect has created a model can he begin to think about how he wants his finished building to look. The goal here is to create an idea before all else and then try to make that idea into a physical object.

This idea-first approach has proven to be complementary to modernism in architecture and symbolizes one way that modernism has been able to avoid being stagnant. Consciously goal-directed work: To avoid stagnation, many modern architects have found ways of directing their efforts toward a goal without stopping to think about aesthetics or intuition. In fact, Le Corbusier believed that intuitive creative work was actually creative in itself because creative people have a tendency to get too close to things they are trying to create and lose sight of what they are doing. To get around this problem, Le Corbusier encouraged architects to write down their ideas before they began working on them so they would not get lost in new creative possibilities after they started. In conclusion, our final quotation comes from Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge”

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