"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."

Beginning, End, Production

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"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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H. G. Wells, English Author

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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"The past is but the past of a beginning."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

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"Everything started as nothing."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

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Simplicity

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

Certainty

"We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency."

Work

"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."

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"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."

Winning

"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."

Now

"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

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"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."

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"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."

Now

"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."

Weather