The lintel over this window is curious. You would expect the bricks to 'want' to fall off. So there is much more to the phrase 'truth to materials' than meets the eye.
This is the villa by Mies van de Rohe in Berlin 1933.
This is an image of sculptor Robert Smithson in the early 1970's. He is contemplating the molecular structure of glass and coal vs the appearance of glass and coal (coal looks irregular but is regular, and glass is the opposite).
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