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The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

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Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

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My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

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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 social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

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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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