A lasting architecture has to have roots.... -I. M. Pei

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A lasting architecture has to have roots.

I. M. Pei , Architect
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than any...
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep....
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the ligh...
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing wi...
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life,...
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect....
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape....
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process....
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet....
A lasting architecture has to have roots....

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