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"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
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"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
"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."
"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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