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What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

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Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret i…

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Sustainability has become an ornament.

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There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yours…

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The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

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The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

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Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

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