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Minoru
Yamasaki
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...you want to build hope and aspirations that will make people delighted and happy.
"...a building must be like a human being."
- Yamasaki
'Aria', in the key of C-Modulor
The Door to Freedom
The Human Condition
- Lev Manovich
“…the screen is aggressive. Its function is to filter…rendering nonexistent whatever is outside its frame.…Its complete takeover of the visual field allows…us today to recognize it.”
-Doug Hofstadter
"...any formal system designed to spew forth truths about 'mere' numbers would also wind up spewing forth truths...about its own properties, and would thereby become 'self-aware'...an inevitable by-product of the system's vast power."
- Windows, '59
A fatal exception has occurred.
- Blake
What immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy
fearful symmetry?
- Bertrand Russell
"The moment will come when neither side can face
the derisive cry of 'Chicken!' from the other side."
- Hunter Thompson, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas:
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
"God's mercy on you swine!"
- Rob Kovitz, Pig City Model Farm
"...it will be a sort of utopia."
- Architectural Forum
"vertical neighborhoods for poor people"
- John von Neumann
"...a very fine tiger."
- Yamasaki
"…I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain a wonderful environment easily in the future."
"He who sees the ratio only sees himself only."
- John Cale
"It would be a stronger world, a stronger loving world,
to die in."
-Minoru Yamasaki, qtd. in his obituary
"...[the] danger of an architect...he's tempted to forget that his real job is beauty."
I never thought people were that destructive.
- William Blake
"...the good-looking men...are always six feet tall!"
-le Corbusier (5'9")
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