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For Aristotle the good life is the optimal mode of living within a city-state, a polls and that is why he can describe a human being as a politikon zoon, "a creature whose nature it is to live in cities" (POLITICS 1253A). Amt fur Au[beta]en Dienst, zoon, for all its provocative components (its various levels, the way it leans into the wall), remained more obscure than suggestive or complex: Where Shelf's architectonics intensified its sculptural form, Amt fur Au[beta]en Dienst's experiment with referential specificity, like the "soapdish" at the back of the office, remained too inertly decorative. Ahrend & Zoon, more or less as the Architectural Review was born, in two buildings on the Singel canal in Amsterdam. |
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