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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens."

"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."

"After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings."

"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."

"Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it."

"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
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