The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.


p. 384 - posthumous publications - El Lissitzky, El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967; 1980)


The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.