It is not, then, a matter of simply setting a building in a park, nor of making a garden to serve a building. What must be found is a total relationship, so intimate between the two elements that make up the whole, that the composition embraces the entire site and the very life of the building flows naturally into the ‘open-air rooms’ and from these into the rooms within.
— Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and António Facco Viana Barreto, in the descriptive memorandum for the preliminary landscape design