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I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.

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I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

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I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

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The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

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Architects design houses. I live in a home.

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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

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I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

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I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

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I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.

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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: August 11th, 1932

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