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“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”

Ralph Erskine · Architecture

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Alvar Aalto

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

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Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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Rem Koolhaas

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

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Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

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