Una mite ossessione = A Gentle Obsession : Il ritorno a “le problème de la croissance des bâtiments”: Le Corbusier 1928-1965

The paranoid-critical method, meant as an approach towards the indeterminacy of the compositional process, could be identified as Le Corbusier’s design method in some of his projects, distinguished by the recurrence of archetypical forms. The projects show how the expressive necessity can be serially articulated through the repetition of specific patterns, confirming the tendency to lead the architectural work back to previously known “signs”. The cyclical return to the spiral symbol, as the basis of the design logic, highlights the constant look back to the primary experience.