The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
BEN NICHOLSONI have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
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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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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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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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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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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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 haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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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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I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
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Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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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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