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I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

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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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