- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is art, nothing else.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
- Denigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
- Harder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020