Shigeru Ban Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.”
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“I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.”
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“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.”
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“Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.”
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“People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.”
-- Shigeru Ban
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