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A city’s architecture is always a bit like a constructed, psychological version of its people.

— Jacques Herzog

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Architecture and psychology suddenly become very close.

The world is changing dramatically and architecture, and especially cities, need to move with these changes. What can we do to help as architects? Architecture as a way of thinking — as the title of our first exhibition in 1989 suggested — is more relevant than ever.

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