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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

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I dont believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. – Ai Weiwei

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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. – Ai Weiwei

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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in Chinas relationship with the outside world. – Ai Weiwei

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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. – Stephen Gardiner

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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. – Arthur Erickson

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Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki

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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. – Tadao Ando

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