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A guideline is a spiritual appeasement that leads to a search for ingenious and harmonious relations. It confers eurhythmy to the work.
A guideline gives the work a mathematical aspect and a benign sense of order. Setting a guideline determines the fundamental geometry of the work, defining, therefore, one of its fundamental impressions. Setting a guideline is one of the decisive moments of inspiration, one of the main operations of architecture . . . . "
- [Le Corbusier]
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