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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."

"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."

"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
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