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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."
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"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."
"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."
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
"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?"
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
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