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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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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."
"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."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
"I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people."
"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."
"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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