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Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

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Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

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I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

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He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

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We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.

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I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

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I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

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I try firstly to make buildings humane.

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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

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There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Architect

Born: July 14th, 1938

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