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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
~ Adolf Loos
Architect
Architecture
Make
Man
More
Precise
Sentiments
Task
Therefore
Those
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
~ Adolf Loos
Abandoned
Because
Before
Beginning
Built
Century
Intend
Just
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Past
Point
Present
Renew
Times
Tradition
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
~ Adolf Loos
Afraid
Being
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Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
~ Adolf Loos
Nature
Only
Sides
Truth
Truthful
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. 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.
~ Adolf Loos
Bond
Building
Changes
Even
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Improvement
Inner
Lie
Old
Only
Otherwise
Our
Permitted
Side
Stay
Stronger
Than
Traditional
Traditional Way
Truth
Us
Walks
Way
Years
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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
~ Adolf Loos
Architecture
Art
Arts
Belongs
Common
Does
Domain
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Excluded
Follow
Function
House
Included
Monument
Nothing
Only
Part
Small
Small Part
Tomb
Very
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It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
~ Adolf Loos
Because
Bound
Difficulties
Does
Forms
Material
Origin
Simply
Specific
Stand
Technical
Up
Use
Way
Whose
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
~ Adolf Loos
Acquired
Art
Comfort
Draw
Everything
Hates
He
Him
His
House
Loves
Man
Out
Position
Satisfies
Secured
Thus
Wants
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
~ Adolf Loos
Architectural
Demand
Form
Regulate
Supply
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
~ Adolf Loos
Art
Artist
Contrary
Does
Everyone
House
Matter
Please
Please Everyone
Private
Which
Work
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
~ Adolf Loos
Art
Comfort
Conservative
House
Revolutionary
Serve
Work
design
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
~ Adolf Loos
After
Appear
Bank
Courts
Declare
Gesture
Here
Honest
Honest People
Law
Looked
Money
Must
People
Secret
Secure
Threatening
Toward
Vice
Well
Your
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
~ Adolf Loos
City
Dear
Here
Herself
I Wish
None
Other
Our
Speak
Than
Vienna
Which
Wish
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
~ Adolf Loos
Comfortable
House
Look
Room
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
~ Adolf Loos
Art
Being
Brought
Comfort
Draw
Everyone
House
Need
None
Out
People
Requirement
Responsible
Satisfies
State
Wants
Without
Work
World
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copy
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
~ Adolf Loos
Art
Directions
Future
House
New
People
Present
Shows
Thinks
Work
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I am but an architectural composer.
~ Alexander Jackson Davis
Am
Architectural
Composer
I Am
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
~ Alexander Jackson Davis
American
Any
Architect
Buildings
Designed
Living
Most
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
~ Alvar Aalto
Art
Bring
Building
Form
Harmony
Hat
Life
Same
Should
Synthesis
Thinking
Together
Try
Way
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
~ Alvar Aalto
Architecture
Art
Building
Dangerous
Dealing
Good
Life
Make
Nothing
Possibilities
Problems
Separated
Split
design
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