Part I: Project Skills

“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Freedom of expression, for me, consists in moving within a measured range that I assign to each of my undertakings. How instructive it is to remember Leonardo da Vinci’s counsel that ‘strength is born of constraint and dies from freedom.’”

—I. M. Pei

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

—Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

—Frank Gehry

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

—Daniel Burnham

“Not ...

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