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The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
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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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