- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
- Demand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020