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Human identity presupposes the identity of place.

— Christian Norberg-Schulz

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In Prague classical architecture becomes romantic, and romantic architecture absorbs the classical characters to endow the earth with a particular kind of surreal humanity. Both become cosmic, not in the sense of abstract order, but as spiritual aspiration. Evidently Prague is one of the great meeting-places where a multitude of meanings are gathered.

Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (1980)

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