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13May08

“A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one.

I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.”

Rauschenberg

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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies - Le Corbusier
Architecture should invent programs for society. The discipline is in a position to do profound research on this. As some programs are invented and come upon us anew, others disappear. I don't think a 100-story office building, for example, is a program for our time. It has very little to do with our time - John Hejduk
Nostalgia is the poetic awareness of our personal past, and since the artist's own past is the mainspring of his creative potential, the architect must listen and heed his nostalgic revelations - Luis Barragan
Every problem, of whatever name or nature, contains and suggests it's own solution. - Louis Sullivan
The most difficult problems do not occur in the search for form, but rather in the attempt to create forms that are based on real human values. - Alvar Aalto
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