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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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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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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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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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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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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."
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"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
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"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."
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"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
Quality
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
Design
"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
Creativity
"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."
Work
"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
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"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
Art
"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."
Life
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
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"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"
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