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"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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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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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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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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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
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"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
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"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
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"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
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"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."
Men
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
Architecture
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
War
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
People
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
Man
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
Home
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
Gardening
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
Architecture
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Nature
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