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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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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
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"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."
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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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"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?"
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"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."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
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"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
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"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this."
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"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."
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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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"I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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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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