The actual realization of my Space-House at the Modernage Company is a proportionate substitute indicating the actual possibilities of the original plan. But the principle it advocates is demonstrated. This is all that can be expected at present. Its principle: Time-Space-Architecture demonstrated through a house. A One-Family-Shelter. Architecture was always threefold: social, tectonic, structural. But Corbusier, Mies, Oud and others have started with the concept of a House; from a One-Family-House; or with a Collective instead of a threefold architectural principle. They started with the Idea of a House: not with a unified architectural dogma. Not from Architecture as a Science. Not from Architecture as Biotechnique (The interrelation of a body to its environment: spiritual, physical, social, mechanical.) The work of these men deals with Houses: esthetic or techno-functional semi-solutions, from which an architectural principle might be deducted, if the spectator is creatively inclined... Opposing such "designs" I always advocated the principle of a new unified theory first - from which new Houses, Factories or whatever structure it might be resu not vice versa.
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