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My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciou

My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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Society
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Thom Mayne
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The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. – Thom Mayne

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architecture
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So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. – Thom Mayne

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Attitude
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The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. – Michael Graves

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The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. – Christopher Nolan

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architecture

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! – T. E. Lawrence

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The higher the building the lower the morals. – Noel Coward

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