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Im often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had

Im often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. Thats impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. – 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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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. – Alain Robert

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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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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis

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