Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
ADOLF LOOSI have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
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The house thinks of the present.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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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.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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