Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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