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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

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There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

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The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

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It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

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The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Architect

Born: November 17th, 1944

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