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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"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."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
"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."
"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
"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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