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“To make the simple complex with the useless is both futile and nihilistic.” – – Carlo Aymonino [1926-2010] Italian architect

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Carlo Aymonino

“You only have one idea in your life.” – – Frank Gehry [b. 1929] Canadian American architect

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Frank Owen (Goldberg) Gehry, FAIA, CC

“Everything should be made as simple as possible.” – – T. S. Eliot [1888-1965] American British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and “one of the twentieth century’s major poets.”

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Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM

“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.” – – John Ruskin [1819–1900] English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist

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John Ruskin in 1863