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“What Gaudi had attained by twisting the order to his peculiar missionary and structural purposes, Loos could only assert by isolation and giganticism: the supremacy of value pitted against the city of brute fact. The Doric order appeared to have been the ultimate historical form, the great human building achievement, unfettered by sculptural contingency or the base need for shelter. All of them – Gaudi, Sullivan and Loos, and Asplund – saw the Doric order as ultimate, though perhaps only for Loos did that imply the last ever, the last possible.”

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Book:The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
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The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

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Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert

Joseph Rykwert, born in 1926, is an outstanding architectural historian and writer. His works have had a wide-reaching impact in the field of architecture, particularly known for his profound insights into the history of modern architecture. more

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