The purpose of architecture/The purpose of design

The ground of architecture

The practicality of architecture
Architecture, art
Building, craft

The cohesion of the old city

Architecture as a mirror for man
The cathedral as the city crown/Religious architecture
The purposelessness of the cathedral
The growth of the old city

The chaotic combination of old and new

"The paradise, the home of the art."
"The hell, the home of the power-hungry."

The awareness of the ill combination (of old and new)/Rejection of imitation of the
past

The absence of a firm footing in the creation of the new city

Life's needs not fulfiled by comfort
Our view of life that may reign powerfully over our cities
Granting today's city adminitation buildings significance is foreign to our modern
feelings
The national thought during during the rise of nationalistic feelings could be a
suitable expression of the highest building will
The highest building willI
The mistake of imitating old temples
"We must search for another head of the torso"

The need for a crown for the city

"For all times, we have gravitated to the house of God as the ony building that can
convey our deepest feelings about manking and the world."
The absence of the church in contemporary conceptions of the city
"The common prayer and liturgy have lost their unifying power."
Cathedrals remain full of life without any new being built
"Some form of purpose must live in every human breast."/The feeling of community
"The steps of religion are large but slow..."
Socialism as the new form of Christianity
Socialism as the philosophy that can crown our cities
"If the architect does not want to become unneccessary, he will have to design the
crown of the city. Furthermore, if we do not know the great element that feeds all
small waters, we will not know the reason to make this little house or that
building beaitful! (...) the lack of this knowledge is the reason why architecture
is so poorly appreciated today."
"If [architects] have no ultimate vision, (...) then their existence has no value.
As a result, an architect's talent is wasted (...) upon small aesthetic things or
the over-valuation of trivialities."
"...a material expression to what slumbers in all mankind."
"These great temples [cathedrals] were previously not there and their thought was
once born in the head of a single architect."
"...architecture only arises if it emerges from a story."
"It is for this reason that all modern attempts to create a monument are condemned
to unfruitfulness, because there is no event or tradition on which to build."
"If the city crown is embedded in socialist ideals, we must examine the types of
actions which manifest these ideals today. What do the majority of people want
today? What do they do? Are there no events in which the longing of the masses
expresses itself in a veiled form? Let us follow the crowd to the places where the
spend their leisure away from materials wishes."
"The idea of a new city has been born, but it is a city without a head. However,
now we know what its head or its crown must be."