81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
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The Importance of Classicism in a Modern Architecture
The other sluice is really different i think yeah built later and it the classicism has been submerged much more in this kind of really stripped back box language. It's got like this deeply suppressed memory of the sort of molding cornice around the top but we put turned into this almost quite twee little sort of wave motif in this blue and white tile. The composition is in modern agitators talking about how the artistic touch has to be applied to everything that's what's going to separate savagery from civilization you know.
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