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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.


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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.



I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?



The future of architecture is culture.

The future of architecture is culture.



I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.



I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.



Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.



Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?



If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.



We do pretty much whatever we want to.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.



Architecture is art, nothing else.

Architecture is art, nothing else.





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