Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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- Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
- Less is more.
- Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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