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Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how

Ai Weiwei

Society

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Ai Weiwei is saying that creating big architectural projects requires dealing with many social and political factors, including government officials and complex rules. This involvement reveals how society operates and often leads to critical views about its systems.

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