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• Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
• Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change…
• My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
• The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.
• You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And…
• Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
• Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,…
• Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
• You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking…
• Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in…
• We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
• So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much…

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