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page180from Nordic Architects Writes
Aarno Ruusuvuori’s Printing House
Weilin+Göös, Tapiola, 1966
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Marxist-Leninist young people of today will have on the building of tomorrow. So
far there is no specifically socialist theory of architecture, and in style,
too, the architecture of socialist countries has been related to general
Western developments, once it rid itself of the monumentalism of the Stalinist
period. Thus the future prospects of the class fighters have basically been of
a general political nature.
The stalemate of architecture
The present situation is no exactly simple
from the point of view of the development of architecture. The quality of new
building, which was the central issue of functionalism, is easily ignored in
the debate, if the builder becomes a lawyer or a politician. However, the large
developments today affect the largest proportion of our society, relatively speaking,
as well as those who have no opportunity to choose their environment
themselves. What is the architect’s responsibility in such
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