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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
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