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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

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Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

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Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.

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I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

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I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

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I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

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We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

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The avant garde is so narcissistic.

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Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: July 9th, 1934

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