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"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
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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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"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
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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."
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"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."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"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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"Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it."
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"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
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"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."
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"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens."
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"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
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"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
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"Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors."
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"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that."
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"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
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"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
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