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And thus the first clusters of residential buildings were constructed.

Most constructors and contractors had formed in the field in various trades and building capacities which they had assimilated in a practical know-how, while the comprehension of the laws of balance and harmony could only develop with experience. Most architects, on the other hand, had undergone a theoretical training before they came to participate in Her township where they were making their first concrete and consequent trials.

Both of them, architect and contractor, would seek the most effective association.

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The team dedicated to urban planning, torn between R.’s influence and that of often divergent collective dynamics, hastened to trace boundaries to these creative opportunities by insisting on an orthodox physical placement respecting the four zones of the original plan, so as to allot a precise site to each of these new projects.

Results were, inevitably, mitigated or unconvincing.

Besides structural errors and the short-cuts taken to reduce expenses, the relative ignorance of the materials utilized and the weaknesses due to underestimation of the weather rigors and conditions, such exhibition of divers styles and approaches is not, however interesting may be its study, favorable to the harmony of a material milieu.

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