- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
- Lasting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020