. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
ADOLF LOOSThe Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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How these people dressed, built their houses,
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Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
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Thus he loves the house and hates art.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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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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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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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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A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
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I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.
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The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not.
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