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"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
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