Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
ADOLF LOOSThe work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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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 law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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The house thinks of the present.
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