"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."

Power, Future, Reform, Today

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"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."

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