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“There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.”

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I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

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The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

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Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

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Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to…

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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

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I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

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The architect works in the territory of memory.

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