We prefer Bach to Wagner, and the spirit which inspired the Parthenon to that which created the cathedral... This modern sentiment is a spirit of geometry, a spirit of construction and synthesis. Exactitude and order are its essential condition... Our trend is towards higher and more impartial gratifications, by reason of the mathematical spirit which inspires us; we can create in a detached and pure manner. Such are the epochs which we call classical.

- Le Corbusier, The City of To-Morrow And Its Planning