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From Kenneth Frampton's Studies In Tectonic Culture, on Meis, building and form :
As he put it in an interview with Christian Norberg-Schultz in 1958 "We do not like the word 'Design.' It means everything and nothing. Many believe they can do everything from design a comb to planning a railway station - the result is nothing is good. We are only interested in building. We would rather that architects use the word 'building' and the best results would belong to the 'art of building.' "
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We refuse to recognise the problems of form, but only problems of building.
Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result.
Form by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Essentially our task is to free the practice of building from the control of the aesthetic speculators and restore it to what it should be: building.