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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. why should we have straight lines in our architecture? you'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
-Philip Johnson
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Concrete You Can Mold, You Can Press

Philip Johnson
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. why should we have straight lines in our architecture? you'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
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