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In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

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I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.

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There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.

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In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

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I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

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I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.

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I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

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Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.

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I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

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I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: January 19th, 1942

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