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"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
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"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future."
"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
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