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"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
"I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun."
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
"Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies."
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."
"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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"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."
"You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today."
"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves."
"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."
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