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“Building well need not mean building lavishly.”

“Buildings and interiors and streetscapes and landscapes are all action settings, places shaping what people do and think and how they engage with one another.”

“Accidents of history and acts of commission both have made distinctive streetscapes and neighborhoods that exact their pull on what we think, feel, do, and decide.”

“A building is a struggle, not a miracle.” - Louis Kahn

“Cloud Gate enhances our sense of agency, since it relies on our participation to create the spectacle of its perpetual remaking.”

“If you look at the Baths of Caracalla….we all know that we can bathe just as well under an eight-foot ceiling as we can under a 150-foot ceiling, but there’s something about a 150-foot ceiling that makes a man a different kind of man.” - Louis Kahn

“Our disregard for our built environments is bankrupting our lives.”