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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
- Meaningless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
- Greener
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- Nov 07, 2020
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020