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This reads as an argument that beauty and truth are not separate aims, but belong together. The line can be taken to mean that art, architecture, or design reaches its purpose when it reveals something true in a beautiful form, not when it merely decorates. It lands in a discussion of work that wants to be both exact and graceful.
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About Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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