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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very a

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin

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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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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. Its more evident now. – 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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You might say that when you step inside, youre entering a honorific space, but thats something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. – Thom Mayne

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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. – James H. Breasted

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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. – Alvar Aalto

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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. – Henry David Thoreau

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