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Bruce Jackson on architecture
Author: Bruce Jackson“Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.” -Bruce Jackson
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Robert Smithson on architecture
Author: Robert Smithson“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.” -Robert Smithson
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Friedrich von Schelling on architecture
Author: Friedrich von Schelling“Architecture in general is frozen music.” -Friedrich von Schelling
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Levon Helm on architecture
Author: Levon Helm“We all love musical architecture there’s no doubt about that.” -Levon Helm
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Jo Nesbo on architecture
Author: Jo Nesbo“Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it’s changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the
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Tadao Ando on architecture
Author: Tadao Ando“Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.” -Tadao Ando
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Louis Kahn on architecture
Author: Louis Kahn“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.” -Louis Kahn
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Frank Gehry on architecture
Author: Frank Gehry“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore.” -Frank Gehry
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Caroline Wozniacki on architecture
Author: Caroline Wozniacki“I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.” -Caroline Wozniacki
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John Irving on architecture
Author: John Irving“The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.” -John Irving
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Ai Weiwei on architecture
Author: Ai Weiwei“I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.” -Ai Weiwei
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Stephen Gardiner on architecture
Author: Stephen Gardiner“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.” -Stephen Gardiner
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Minoru Yamasaki on architecture
Author: Minoru Yamasaki“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.” -Minoru Yamasaki
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Helmut Jahn on architecture
Author: Helmut Jahn“The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.” -Helmut Jahn
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Larry Wall on architecture
Author: Larry Wall“Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.” -Larry Wall
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Charles Eames on architecture
Author: Charles Eames“In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.” -Charles Eames
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Ernest Dimnet on architecture
Author: Ernest Dimnet“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.” -Ernest Dimnet
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Christopher Nolan on architecture
Author: Christopher Nolan“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.” -Christopher Nolan
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Trey Parker on architecture
Author: Trey Parker“I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.” -Trey Parker
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Nick Clegg on architecture
Author: Nick Clegg“The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it’s completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.” -Nick Clegg
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Brad Pitt on architecture
Author: Brad Pitt“I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.” -Brad Pitt
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Adam Carolla on architecture
Author: Adam Carolla“In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started
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Quincy Jones on architecture
Author: Quincy Jones“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.” -Quincy Jones
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Maya Lin on architecture
Author: Maya Lin“Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.” -Maya Lin
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Le Corbusier on architecture
Author: Le Corbusier“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” -Le Corbusier