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"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
"I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun."
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
"Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies."
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."
"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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"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."
"People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect."
"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."
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