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Manhattan Is An Accumulation Of Possible Disasters That Never Happen.

Why I Talked About Political Correctness: The Colonial Is Now Such A Major Taboo That Any Achievement Of The Colonial Period, Or Any Generosity Implied In Colonialism, Is Again Fundamentally Neglected Or Fundamentally Not Recognised. That's Crazy, Because History Is A Series Of Layers, And You Cannot Say, "this Layer I Support And This Layer I Cancel." History Is History And You Cannot Retrospectively Manipulate It.

Criticism Per Se Does Not Worry Me. I've Always Solicited It As Part Of The Design Process.

Architecture Is A Rare Collective Profession: It's Always Exercised By Groups. There Is An Essential Modesty, Which Is A Complete Contradiction To The Notion Of A Star.

In A Script, You Have To Link Various Episodes Together, You Have To Generate Suspense And You Have To Assemble Things - Through Editing, For Example. It's Exactly The Same In Architecture. Architects Also Put Together Spatial Episodes To Make Sequences.