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"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."
"You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure."
"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
"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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"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."
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