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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

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The future of architecture is culture.

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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

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There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

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I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

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I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

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You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: July 8th, 1906

Died: January 25th, 2005

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