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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
- Intellectual
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
- Disintegration
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
- Been
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
- Craftsmen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
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- Nov 07, 2020