- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
- Classroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
- Exciting
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- Nov 07, 2020
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020