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Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)

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There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

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The straight line is godless and immoral.

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Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

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