"To build is to be robbed."
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"Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture."
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"Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values."
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"The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement."
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"There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years."
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"I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord."
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"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal."
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"Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of."
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"Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'."
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"Architecture is crystallized music."
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"It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole."
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"Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force."
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"For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn."
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"You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things."
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"Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify."
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