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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

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Every building must have... its own soul.

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You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

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The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

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The street is a room by agreement.

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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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A room is not a room without natural light.

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How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: February 20th, 1901

Died: March 17th, 1974

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