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"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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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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"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."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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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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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
Thinking
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
Funny
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Family
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
Architecture
"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
Love
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
Architecture
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
Parents
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."
Life
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."
War
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