I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept … - Eero Saarinen

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One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok. . . it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

Eero Saarinen

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

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The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

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Function influence but does not dictate form

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I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

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To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

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The major concern. . . was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time. . . Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

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