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The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

— El Lissitsky El Lissitzky, El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967)

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We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

El Lissitzky, El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967)

Proun is the the Step-over from the art of painting to Architecture [original text in German:] (Umsteige-station von Malerei nach Architectur).

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Rußland: Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (1929)

PROUN alters the conventional forms of the arts and leaves behind the image of the petty individualist, who locked himself in his office and hid seated before a drawing easel, starting one picture and finishing another.

Theses on the 'PROUN': from painting to architecture (1920)

Then I can see that I'm with you [in Dresden] at the end of April - beginning of May. Then I'll also paint with you the few works which are desired of me, if you'll help me - because I have already forgotten how to paint.

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