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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.

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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

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It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.

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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

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When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.

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The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

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I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

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It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn't fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

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If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: March 27th, 1886

Died: August 17th, 1969

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