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"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."
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"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 intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."

"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."

"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."

"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."

"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
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"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have."


"But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be."


"You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today."


"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."
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