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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."

"What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."

"An important work of architecture will create polemics."

"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
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"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."

"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."

"You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree."

"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."

"Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions."
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