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Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
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The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
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The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
~ Minoru Yamasaki
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And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
~ Lawrence Halprin
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