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My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.


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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
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Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.


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Art is the proper task of life.


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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.


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