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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
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