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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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
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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 first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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