Robert A. M. Stern quotes:
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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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Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.
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My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
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Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.
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Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
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That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.
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The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.
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To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.