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" Architecture is definitely a political act. "

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Bernard Tschumi

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Annabelle Selldorf

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" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" Architects design houses. I live in a home. "

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Mary Lou Jepsen

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Michael Tilson Thomas

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" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "

Elizabeth Diller

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Antoine Predock

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Ernest Hemingway

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