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"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
"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."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
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"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."
"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
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"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines."
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