I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
ADOLF LOOSThe work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone.
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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All art is erotic.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
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The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The house has to serve comfort
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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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 house thinks of the present.
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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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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