“The Glass Room remained indifferent, of course. Plain, balanced, perfect; and indifferent. Architecture should have no politics, Rainer von Abt said. A building just is. Below it, lapping up to the foot of the garden, were the rough tides of those political years, while the Landauer House stood beached on the shore above the tidemark like a relic of a more perfect golden age. That summer there were graffiti on the walls in Marienbad, where the Landauers went for their usual holiday. SdP was the slogan, painted in red letters that dripped blood.” ~Simon Mawer