Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

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The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

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If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

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The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

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One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

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