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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.
- Even Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020