The opposite of the issue of style: necessity, unity, immanent coherence, the naked, simple and true -- 'Tectonics' and the 'theory of raiment' -- Disenchantment with 'Bötticher's overly intellectual work' and the postulation of a way to overcome the 'Semperian mechanistic conception of the essence of art' -- 'Stilhülse und Kern': from theory to metaphor - and its deployment by Otto Wagner -- Adolf Loos - against the Zeitgeist -- 'ad usum Delphini', the 'elemental event' of the raiment dissolved, and the ineluctable return, or recognized tenacity, of the Hull.
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