'What was needed was a proper yet unobtrusive welcoming center. Few substantial changes had been made to Versailles since Louis (ⅩⅥ)'s additions-and certainly nothing modernist.'

摘要

When Daniel Burnham admonished architects to "make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood," maybe he was thinking of Versailles. Louis (ⅩⅥ), the Sun King, had by 1682 done everything with his palace outside Paris that the Chicago planner advised in 1907: "Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency."