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Norman Foster

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

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As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

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It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

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Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

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If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

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