The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
ADOLF LOOSSupply and demand regulate architectural form.
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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 first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
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It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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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 work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The house satisfies a requirement.
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