"Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant." - Oscar Niemeyer
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - R.Buckminster Fuller
"A great building, in my opinion, must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” - Louis Kahn
"Architecture has always been as much about the event that takes place in a space as about the space itself." - Bernard Tschumi
"Never talk to a client about architecture...He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time." - Mies van der Rohe
"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart." - Frank Lloyd Wright
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