Poem of The Right Angle - A. Milieu (Environment-Green)

A. Milieu (Environment-Green)

Green is the alchemical symbol of the primal matter of the universe. Le Corbusier uses this zone as a taxonomy of natural cycles.

A.1. Representative of the cyclical nature of the sun

...the two rhythms

which regulate our destiny:

A sun rises

A sun sets

A sun rises again

A.2. Representative of the water cycle, an important part of alchemy and "a matrix for a dualistic universal confrontation."

The level establishes where stops the descent of the wates to the sea the sea daughter of droplets and mother of vapors. And the horizontal defines the liquid content.

A.3. Introduces earth symbol, cardinal symbols, and man as procreator. It also is the first passage that directly references the right angle, here as a symbol of life, living and "uprightness".

Upright on the terrestrial plateau of things perceptible to you contract with nature a pact of solidarity: it is the right angle Upright in front of the sea vertical there you are on your legs.

A.4. Uses figure-ground and heavy contrast to remark on the role of chaos in the divide between the conscious and unconscious

The law of the meander is active in the thoughts and enterprises of men forming their ever renewing avatars But the trajectory gushes out from the mind and is projected by the clairvoyants beyond confusion

A.5. Very similar to the actual cover of the work, it is split down the middle and the clasped hands signal contradiction and reconciliation of opposites, which Corbusier stated were the only ways to ensure human survival. In a similar painting, the clasped hands symbolize the architect and the engineer working together.

I have thoughts that two hands and their interlocking fingers express this right and this left unrelentingly unified and so necessary to reconciliation. The only possibility of survival offered to life