Votivkirche, 1090 Wien, Westturm, renoviert

The very condition of architectural form is to separate and to be separated. Through its act of separation and being separated architecture reveals at once the essence of the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the composition of (separate) parts.

Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture

We proclaim:
That futurist architecture is the architecture of calculation, of audacious temerity and of simplicity; the architecture of reinforced concrete, of steel, glass, cardboard, textile fiber, and of all those substitute of wood, stone and brick that enable us to obtain maximum elasticity and lightness. (1914)