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NEGATION AND RECONCILIATION
IF WE CONCEIVE processoftransformation
OF TIME as a through
continuousnegation,thenthebasis oftimeis self-criticism and itsproducts
are ceaseless divisionand separation.The formin whichtimemanifests
itselfis therepeatedinterpretation ofan eternaltruthor an archetype.
The sensuous and the spiritual The modernage beganas criticism ofall mythologies, and therefore
which struggleas opposites modernarchitecture is thefirstin historyto predicateitselfnotonlyon the
in the common understanding criticismofculturalantecedents but also on thecriticism ofartperse.
are revealed as reconciled Modemarchitecture providedneithera newtreatisenora newstyle.
in the truthexpressed by art. Instead,it brought abouta radicalbreakin thecontinuity ofhistory.This
GeorgHegel, On theArts radicalformofcritiqueindicatedthepossibility ofan irreversible
termination ofstyle:
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RAIMUND ABRAHAM
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ABRAHAM
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ABRAHAM
Project, 1978-80
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ABRAHAM
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Monument for the Absence of the Painting Guernica Universal Corner Building for a City Block
Guernica City, Spain International Building Exhibition, Berlin, 1984
Project, 1981 Competition Project, 1980-81
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