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“What do you want this new museum of ours to be, the director had asked him at one of the meetings – an encyclopedia or a novel?”

Novel Encyclopedia

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“A house that is unheimlich is a house where you lose yourself, lose your way, literally or figuratively.”

Uncanny Figuratively

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“It is these guardians of the medium who have always clipped architecture’s wings are the moment the buds were about to burst open and who have mercilessly pruned back the roots of the medium so that they would not break open the concrete pavement.”

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“Agreement in a dialogue can lead to a cul-de-sac.”

Agreement Cul De Sac

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“The descriptive nature of literature, after all, is far removed from the prescriptive nature that typifies the design disciplines.”

Descriptive Prescriptive

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“The modernists tried to occupy multiple places within a single, indivisible moment, making it possible to take multiple positions simultaneously, so that reality took on greater transparency.”

Reality Transparency

Book:OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature