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• Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
• Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
• We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source…
• Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of…
• It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
• The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed…
• The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
• No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
• The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if…
• Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
• Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what…
• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

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