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

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