"Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant."
-Oscar Niemeyer
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"It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.“
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"There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space."
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"Architecture is invention."
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"Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings."
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"Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle."
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"It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology."
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