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        • A Spectacle of Deepest Harmony

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        Good architecture can only be defined by talking about the making of it. Architecture is good when it manifests itself by making room for something else. The relationship with power has always been a condition for the realisation of architecture. Rather than try to make life better, architecture therefore has to become ‘destructive’. Architecture is always literally destructive, but it also has to be figuratively destructive, by cherishing no illusions about itself and by showing this explicitly. Only then can architecture claim what Walter Benjamin called ‘the destructive character’ and cause a liberating rupture from everything that came before.
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        Vittorio Aureli, P. (2013). A Spectacle of Deepest Harmony. What is Good Architecture?, OASE, (90), 7–12. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/90/ASpectacleOfDeepestHarmony

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