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By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

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Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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