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"What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."

"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."
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"No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing."

"Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'."

"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all."

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"What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"
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