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"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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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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"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
Architecture
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
Work
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
Consequence
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
Being
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
Experience
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
Artist
"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
"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."
Time
"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."
Wood
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