“Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.”
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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
