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Quotes by Architect
"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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"The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years."
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"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
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"It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way."
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"The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment."
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"You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!"
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
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"An absolutely different and distinctive character."
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"We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."
Work,
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"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
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"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."
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"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."
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"The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams."
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"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."
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"I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life."
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"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
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"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
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"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."
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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
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"I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago."
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"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
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"With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama."
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"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
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"One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off."
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"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
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