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"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."

"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."

"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."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone."

"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
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