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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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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."
"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."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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