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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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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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"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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