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Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair… but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
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Rand Carter in "Karl Friedrich Schinkel, The Last Great Architect" (1981)

 

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