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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

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I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

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Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.

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Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

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Every How is carried by a What.

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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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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

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Cheese was the staple. Bread you brought from home. The Schnaps came later. At the end of the week when people got paid, that's when you got your Schnaps, lots of it, five Pfennige a shot.

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What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

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Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: March 27th, 1886

Died: August 17th, 1969

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