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Martin Filler Quotes: Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
         

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.


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