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John Portman

"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."

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A.E. Samaan

"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

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A.E. Samaan

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

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A.E. Samaan

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

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A.E. Samaan

"In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles."

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A.E. Samaan

"The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire."

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A.E. Samaan

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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A.E. Samaan

"There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world."

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A.E. Samaan

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

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A.E. Samaan

"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

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A.E. Samaan

"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."

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John Portman
"It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward."

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John Portman
"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around."

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John Portman
"We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience."

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John Portman
"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."

Environment

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