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I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style and that's what my work is about.

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Giambattista Valli
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
  • 2. At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers and at its worst an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
  • 3. Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing and I've always loved hip-hop.
  • 2. Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
  • 3. People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

3 Anger

  • 1. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
  • 2. Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
  • 3. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger it's motivation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
  • 2. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 3. Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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