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" A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Heart
Great
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" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
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" 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. "
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