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"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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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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"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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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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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 Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
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"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
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"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
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"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."
Men
"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
Wisdom
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
Architecture
"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."
American
"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."
Balance
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Design
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
War
"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."
Living
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
Houses
"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."
Athens
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