A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a land

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. – Curtis W. Fentress

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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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