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"Architecture theory is very interesting."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"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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"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
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