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It is not really absorbed or integrated into the whole. This goes away only by a deep educational system starting from the nursery on through the whole system.\" Walter Gropius, On Science and Art. The Visual Arts Center, in my vision, is a center where making, seeing, learning and touching become as one cultural activity. Appreciation of the arts literally lies at the back of learning more about the materials, ideas, styles and making things. One can only understand himself and his abilities through making things.","abstract_html":"The thesis idea of "A Visual Arts Center" for the Nation's Capital came to life based on my desire to visual arts and artists, exhibition and working, under the same roof, and mainly to solve the problem of appreciation and ignorance towards arts. What I have observed was that Washington, D.C. is the Capital of the superpower Nation, the Capital of the U.S. government, the Capital of politics. "...In science, I found everything was very clear. Art? 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