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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

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I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

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Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

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A lasting architecture has to have roots.

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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey,...

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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des...

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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

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