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    The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

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    The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

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    The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

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    The history of art is the history of revivals.

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    The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

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    The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

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    The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

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    The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

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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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    The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

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    The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

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    The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

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    The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

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    The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

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    The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

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    The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

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    The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

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    The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

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    The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

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    There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

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    The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

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    The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

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    The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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    The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

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    There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

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    There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

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    There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

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    There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

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    The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

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    There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

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    There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

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    There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

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    The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

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    There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

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    the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

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    The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

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    The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

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    The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

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    There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

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    The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

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    The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

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    The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

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    The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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    This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

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    Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

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    The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

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    Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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    To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

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    To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

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    To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.