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Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

Alvaro Siza Vieira / Architect
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Innovation
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Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

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Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

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