"When we say architecture, we include the social, political and économie context. Architecture of any sort is in fact the inévitable background, support and frame of any work."
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Daniel Buren (1979), cited in: A. A. Bronson, Peggy Gale, Art Metropole (1983). Museums by artists. p. 73
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