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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic func

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. – Michael Graves

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It was always my goal to up the ante on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. – Michael Graves

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. – Michael Graves

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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. – Goldwin Smith

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The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. – Ralph Erskine

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People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, thats both liberating and alarming. – Rem Koolhaas

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Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful youll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? – Jeremy Renner

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