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Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. – Oscar Niemeyer

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My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine. – Oscar Niemeyer

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