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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.
• I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the…
• Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.…
• The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
• I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and…
• I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to…
• Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they…
• Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room. The…
• All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent,…
• The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's…
• How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.
• Even a brick wants to be something

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