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"In reality, the dual nature of man is hidden behind the semantic struggle concerning the origin of the house of Adam: on the one hand, his sedentary side, atracted by what is permanent and stable and on the other, the nomad, fascinated by the idea of movement and migration. The resolution of this dichotomy is to be found among the current preoccupations of architects, centred upon the subject of flexibility. This may be the way to discover, with excitement, the repressed nomad which sleeps i.
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"'If one want to express something abstract, something that doesn't immediately relate to the visible reality, the best thing is to relate to the immediate surroundings. Then it stays clear and things never become easily vague'*.
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"Although flexibility in the design of housing is thought to be desirable, there are only a few examples which are completely successful in this respect. In other cases, the creation of a hierarchy of spaces within a limited area leads directly to types of plan which start to dictate where and how activities should happen. The position of the entrance is often related to a kitchen, dining, living sequence, with the bathroom in a more private location serving the bedrooms, and the size of the .
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"When Joseph Beuys was reconstructing the practice of art in post-war Germany, his work was intentionally inexplicable, rejecting a priori theories as a valid basis for art. Instead he drew on emotional and intuitive forces deep within himself in order to articulate this condition of starting anew and to connect as directly as possible with the viewer. The seeming irrationalism of the work could be seen as a direct critique of the productivist ethic of the post war era, which itself could be .
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“In this room (...), Mrs Moreau decided to install her kitchen. The decorator Henry Fleury conceived an avant-garde design for her and began to proclaim that it would be the prototype of the twenty-first century kitchen: a culinary laboratory one generation ahead of its time, provided with the most sophisticated technical improvements, equipped with microwave ovens, invisible hotplates, remote-controlled household robots capable of carrying out complex programmes of preparation and cook.
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