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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne

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Ich werde oft als altmodischer Modernist bezeichnet. Aber die Modernisten hatten die absurde Vorstellung, dass Architektur die Welt heilen könnte. Das ist nicht möglich. Und heute erwartet niemand mehr, dass Architekten diese großen Visionen haben.

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