Architecture is a dangerous profession, because it is a poisonous mixture of impotence and omnipotence, in the sense that the architect almost invariably harbors megalomaniacal dreams that depend upon others, and upon circumstances, to impose and to realize those fantasies and dreams.

Rem Koolhaas, Conversations With Students

Members of the Architects' Collaborative cling on to modern art outside their Harvard Graduate Center, 1949. Gropius' feet are closest to the ground. (Source: Andrew Saint, The Image of the Architect.)