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Experts

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.
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Breaking Down Stuff
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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Feels Lasts Years
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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Grail Holy Mean
I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.

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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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.
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Tyrants
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.
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Greed
I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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Experts
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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Agnostic Pluralism
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.
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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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.
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Realism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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Abandoned
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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Agents Instruments
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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Clients Pushing
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.

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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.
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Temple West
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.

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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.
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.

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