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The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should alwa

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. – Helmut Jahn

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You dont know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they dont talk to you. Theres very little interaction. – Helmut Jahn

Category:
Beauty
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Helmut Jahn
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Its my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you dont need as long as youre able to achieve the same result? – Helmut Jahn

Category:
architecture
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Helmut Jahn
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We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill

Category:
architecture

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. – Marilyn Hacker

Category:
architecture

But I absolutely believe that 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. – Thom Mayne

Category:
architecture

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. – John Portman

Category:
architecture

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I can still smell the green of the grass crushed beneath me. Feel the damp of the dew on my elbows. Hear the birdsong. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. – Albert Schweitzer

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Fear is the mother of morality. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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