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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

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I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.

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And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

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Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

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And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

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If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

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In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: December 1st, 1912

Died: February 6th, 1986

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