(b) 'Objective' work, undertaken with the silent hope that the end product will nevertheless eventually be regarded as a work of art. | (c) Consciously goal-directed work in architecture, which will have a concise artistic effect on the basis of well-preparated objective-scientific criteria. | Such an architecture will actively raise the general standard of living. This represents the dialectic of our development process, which purports to arrive at the affirmative by negation — a process similar to melting down old iron and forging it into new steel. | Quotes from: 'Ideological Superstructure'
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