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"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
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"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."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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