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• We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
• The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
• I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ...…
• I didn't want to lose the human scale.
• Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize…
• And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
• I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could
• If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
• And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then…
• And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
• I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology…
• I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

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