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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

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I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

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It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

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To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

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Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Architecture is art, nothing else.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: July 8th, 1906

Died: January 25th, 2005

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