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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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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
"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!"
"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."
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"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't."
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"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."
"Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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