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" There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. "

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" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

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" The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. "

" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

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" To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. "

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