Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

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