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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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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
- Future
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
- Comfort
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
- Art
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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
- Make
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
- Money
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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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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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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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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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