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Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. – 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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Morning
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Oscar Niemeyer
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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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architecture
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Oscar Niemeyer
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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architecture

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive. – Helmut Jahn

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architecture

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

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architecture

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. – Helmut Jahn

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architecture

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The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be ones appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. – Amelia Earhart

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