But don’t talk to Souto de Moura about meaning. He is, determinedly, a modernist materials man. “Architects went wrong because they spent too much time talking about the meaning of things and not about the things themselves,” he says. “From Nietzsche and Heidegger and on into existentialism we see that the importance is in the existence of things and not in the deduction of things.”

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