« As urbanists and architect of metropolitan densities we must think first of building sections for the qualities of sunlight and the dynamics of diagonal sectional movement. The old conditions of linear perspective (from planimetric projections) disappear behind us as modern urban life presents multiple horizons and multiple vanishing points. The further affirmation of the diagonal and the vertical in new spatial experience is the challenge of the 21st century metropolitan density. »
Steven HOLL [1]
Louis KAHN, Fisher House, 1967
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[1] in FERNANDEZ PER, Aurora, MOZAS, Javier, ARPA, Javier, This is Hybrid – An analysis of mixed-use buildings by a+t research group, a+t architecture publishers, 2011, p.9
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