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Invisible Architecture:
"I think that concepts of architecture have gone through and are as yet to go through great transformation. What humans a century hence will identify retrospectively as what they consider to be the architecture of the late twentieth century may not as yet have been so recognized in 1972.
"Architecture in the past often has been spoken of as ‘frozen music.’ Now the architectural music is being unfrozen and is ultimately to be freed from its embodiment exclusively within the physical structure. The music of the emerging architecture is to be entirely weightless, abstract. It will be the sense of gratification and inspiration of living freedom and potential initiatives of the human occupants disembarrassed of their slavery to the production and maintenance of the buildings and emancipated from exploitation of land, buildings, and occupants as money makers. The architectural music will be the metaphysical regeneration of the spirit to be experienced by the buildings’ users.
“Commissioned by a powerfully dominant armed land baron, an architect of yesterday designed the master’s palace primarily as”
