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"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
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"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."

"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
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"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."

"One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful."

"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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