I haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSONThe 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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What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
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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 deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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I 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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I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.
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The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural… Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
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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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I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
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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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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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I’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
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We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
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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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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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