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" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "

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" For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. "

" Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

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