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A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

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Real, Quality, Improvement

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

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Technology, Answers

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

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Opportunity, Should Have, Littles

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

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Architecture, Environment, Distortion

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

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Dull, Matter, Architect

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

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Moving, Medicine, Architecture

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

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Architecture, Problem, Problem Solvers
Cedric Price (2003). “Re: CP”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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