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" Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. "
Own
Start
Tyranny
" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "
Architecture
Think
World
" I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. "
Believe
I Believe In
I Believe
" I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. "
Most
Feel
Because
" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "
Temple
Escape
You
" I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. "
Bones
Buildings
Out
" I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House. "
Since
Any
Building
" I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. "
Holy
Ideas
Interested
" I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. "
Ideas
Just
Draw
" I'm not an expert, but I want to be. "
Want
Expert
" I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. "
Instrument
I See
Man
" I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction. "
Ecstatic
Started
Addiction
" MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us. "
Freedom
Want
Serving
" Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. "
Happiness
Beautiful
Dreams
" Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense. "
Sense
Serious
Politics
" Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. "
Me
Student
You
" The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. "
Greed
Beast
Corruption
" The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. "
Corruption
American
Soul
" The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. "
Irish
British
Culture
" The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. "
Organization
Grandmother
Uncle
" We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients. "
Hard
Quality
Advertising
" What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years. "
Bad
Years
Feel
" When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life. "
Short
World
Fool
" You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. "
Best
Architecture
Heaven
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