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Dear Bernard,

"Architecture is born of this original discrepancy between
the two spaces -the horizontally oriented space of our
experience and the vertically oriented space of nature; it
begins when we add vertical walls to the horizontal 
surface of the earth.

Through architecture a piece of natural space is as it 
were set on its side so as to correspond to our 
experience-space. In this new space we live not so 
much against the earth as against the walls; our space 
lies not upon the earth but between walls.

This space brings a completion to natural space that 
allows it to be brought into relation with our 
experience-space; at the same time it allows 
specifically human space to be assimilated into the 
homogeneous order of nature."
(Father Hans van der Laan)

Best regards,
R

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