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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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"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."
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"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
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