Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

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