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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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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."
"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."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"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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"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."
"True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."
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