Ben Nicholson

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I had to learn to see the world. I followed the teachers wherever they were and I didn't care about the institution, it was more about the person.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.