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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I purs

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I dont want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. – Maya Lin

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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. – Maya Lin

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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. – Maya Lin

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War
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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. – Maya Lin

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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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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. – Marc Newson

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. – John Portman

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Im drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. – Brad Pitt

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