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• Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.
• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
• We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change,…
• Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
• Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
• I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the…
• Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology…
• I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology…
• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban…
• There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There…
• Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

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