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The structures which were means to create a new architecture
have been wrested from us and turned into commercialized decorative
ends in themselves with no inner value.
There was a time when a misconstrued,
lifeless traditionalism was the chief enemy of good architecture.

Today its worst enemy is the superficial decorative misuse of the means
acquired during the breakthrough...
The contrast between deep social responsibility and decorative
"surface effects"is perhaps the oldest and certainly the most topical issue
in the debate on architecture.

Please do not think that I wish to disparage beauty in rejecting decorativeness.
Architecture must have charm;it is a factor of beauty in society.
But real beauty is not a conception of form which can be taught,
it is the result of harmony between several intrinsic factors,not least the social. - Alvar Aalto

Im thinking about Humanism for a whole day.