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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
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.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
