It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
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Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
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The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
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You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.
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