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"The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens..." — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
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