Architecture vs. the People

So often we hear, with regard to cities, terms like “livable,” “sustainable,” “green,” “resilient,” and more recently, “smart,” spreading promise of a city as the ideal model for humanity’s urban dwellers. We are fed dreams of a self-aware, self-sustaining, self-mending, ecological, and egalit

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose. – Chris Bangle

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance. – Rern Koolhaas

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