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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.


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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.



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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.



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