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“Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.”

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I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it.…

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The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

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I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

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The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

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There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing…

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Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

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We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as…

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No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of…

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I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

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I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

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I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation…

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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

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Fighting's fun, man. It's a great activity, it's a great sport.

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For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…

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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

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