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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
Consequence
"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
Chicago
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
Work
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
Artist
"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction."
Beauty
"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
Creativity
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
Creativity
"Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level."
Change
"A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it."
People
"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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Personal Development
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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Personal Development
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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Personal Development
"There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas."
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Personal Development
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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Personal Development
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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Personal Development
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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Personal Development
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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Personal Development
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
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Personal Development
"I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint."
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Personal Development
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