76. About the Photographs of the Construction

First of all, it is important that you focus on the basic idea. This consists of the fact that other architectures are made with the walls in mind; this architecture - because it is in space - is intended to have closures. And that which closes off is the walls. The walls are also so formed in their shapes in the ordinary architectures that they close off, that they make the world of sensation opaque. When one is inside the building, [then this is expressed from the outside] in such a way that a piece of space is closed off. This idea has been broken with us. Our entire architecture is formed in such a way that it is, I would like to say, emotionally transparent. You should be in the room and get the feeling that the forms that make up the walls visibly take hold of you, that these forms cancel themselves out, that they are such that you don't have the feeling that a room is closed off here, but that everything goes out into the distance. In other words, the forms themselves should create walls that dissolve into walls that are transparent to the soul. That is the basic idea in all the forms that have been given.