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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.

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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

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