Emilio Ambasz quotes
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“When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."”
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“In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.”
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“I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.”
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“Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.”
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“Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.”
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“The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.”
-- Emilio Ambasz
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“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”
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“Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
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