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Quotes by Architect
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is."
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"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
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"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
Now,
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"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."
17
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."
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"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."
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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
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"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."
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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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"Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941."
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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
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"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order."
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"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
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"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
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"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
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"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
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"I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation."
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"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
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"Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks."
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"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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