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Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for lig

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. – 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 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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For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. – Oscar Niemeyer

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As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. – Harry von Zell

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But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. – Thom Mayne

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But after the time there Id had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didnt last very long. – Stephen Sprouse

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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. – Louis Kahn

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