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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

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I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

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I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

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I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: July 8th, 1906

Died: January 25th, 2005

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