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Dear Louis Architect Here is an introduction for your book for which you asked me. As you know my father was a building contractor; in reality a very able architect without a diploma. When I was around fourteen years old, I was completely involved in sculpture, and probably trying to keep me away from it he started to tell me that architecture is the queen of the plastic arts. Of course I was not listening to his sayings being [[strikethrough]] completely [[/strikethrough]] so involved in my desire to be a sculptore. Later on in Paris, having [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] difficulties with my art, I started to think about my father's sermons and [[strikethrough]] started [[/strikethrough]] began to study architecture in order to understand what my father meant. As a result of my studies I came to the conclusion that my father was right. But why? Only because architecture is a summary of all the plastic arts. But, if we take away some parts of this complex, [[strikethrough]] which is architecture [[/strikethrough]] would [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] architecture still [[strikethrough]] continue to [[/strikethrough]] be the queen of the plastic arts? My answer was no, because if we would take [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] that for granted we [[strikethrough]] would [[/strikethrough]] could come to an absurdum, for example, that some nicely built shack is of greater plastic significance than a sculpture by Michelangelo. For me, a building without sculpture and painting