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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history.…

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Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

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My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

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