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Roland Barthes

“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

Roland Barthes, The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
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The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies by Roland Barthes
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