From
Hitchcock and Johnson, The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 (pp.20)
The new principles of architecture
The new principles of architecture
ÒThere is,
first, a new conception of architecture as volume rather
than as mass. Secondly, regularity rather
than axial symmetry serves as the chief means of ordering
design. These two principles, with
a third proscribing arbitrary applied decoration, mark the
productions of the international style.Ó