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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

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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.

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The future of architecture is culture.

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

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Architecture is art, nothing else.

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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