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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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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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"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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"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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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
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"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."
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"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."
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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
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"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
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"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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