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"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
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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."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

"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."

"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."


"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."
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