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The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

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Robert A. M. Stern
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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. There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
  • 2. Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
  • 3. I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves 'where do I want to be today where do I want to be tomorrow and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.
  • 2. My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers – we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that because we would have drifted apart.
  • 3. Most New Yorkers want to look amazing and they want you to understand that they look amazing but they also want you to stop staring at them.

3 Anger

  • 1. All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike friendship anger or pity.
  • 2. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
  • 3. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 3. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is invention.
  • 2. As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
  • 3. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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