Genius Loci
Náttúran er okkara grundstøði
Veðurlagið okkara avbjóðing
Søgan okkara útgangsstøði
Mentanin okkara innihald
og Vónin og vitið er okkara drívmegi
The concept of Genius Loci
Architecture is a thing of art, a phenomenon of the emotions, lying outside questions of construction and beyond them. The purpose of construction is to make things hold together; of architecture to move us. Architectural emotion exists when the work rings within us in tune with a universe whose laws we obey, recognize and respect. When certain harmonies have been attained, the work captures us. Architecture is a mater of “harmonies,” it is a “pure creation of the spirit.”
Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture