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I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

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Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

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Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

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Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

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No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

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I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

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Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

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Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: January 19th, 1942

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