In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. (Peter Zumthor)

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Peter Zumthor

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