architecture
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘architecture’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.” -George Lamming
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“The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.” -Michael Graves
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“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.” -Richard Meier
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“Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.” -Kenzo Tange
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“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.” -Kenneth Clark
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“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.” -Thomas Reid
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“I think architecture has to be a gift.” -Jean Nouvel
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“What is being called the UN ‘gender architecture’ is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.” -Charlotte Bunch
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“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?” -Bernard Levin
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“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.” -Gustav Stickley
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“Architecture aims at Eternity.” -Christopher Wren
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“Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.” -James Wyatt
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“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.” -Edwin Lutyens
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“After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.” -Harry Seidler
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“I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.” -Joseph Kosinski
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“The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.” -Ian Hamilton Finlay
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“I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.” -Art Garfunkel
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“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.” -Ralph Erskine
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“But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it’s fantastic.” -Paul Bettany
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“There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.” -James H. Breasted
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“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.” -George Hickenlooper
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“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.” -James Stewart
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“But after the time there I’d had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn’t last very long.” -Stephen Sprouse
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“Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.” -Frank Stella
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“I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.” -James Maslow
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“You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.” -Walter Russell Mead
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“What’s fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it’s crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful.” -Tony Hale
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“I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.” -Philip Warren Anderson
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“I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.” -Charlie Rose
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“There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.” -John Baldacci
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“I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work…
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“Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.” -Adolf Loos
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“You might say that when you step inside, you’re entering a honorific space, but that’s something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.” -Thom Mayne
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“I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.” -William Devane
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“But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.” -Michael Tilson Thomas
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“When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.” -Juan Goytisolo
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“The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.” -Mukesh Ambani
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“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.” -Nancy Banks Smith
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“I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.” -Gates McFadden
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“Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.” -Malcolm Wallop
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“That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I’ve paid homage to it many times in my drawings.” -Jim Woodring
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“Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.” -John Howe
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“Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.” -Richard Rogers
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“I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.” -Daniel Libeskind
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“I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.” -Hayden Christensen
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“Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.” -Goldwin Smith
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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Martin Mull
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“When I’m in London, Claridge’s is a great favourite. I’m a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.” -Roman Coppola
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“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.” -Alex Winter
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“I’ve never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.” -Oren Peli
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“I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.” -Joe Elliott
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“You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.” -Ben Nicholson
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“The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.” -Jay Chiat
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“One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.” -Oksana Baiul
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“In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.” -Arne Jacobsen
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“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.” -Marcus V. Pollio
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“The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.” -Rem Koolhaas
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“Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.” -Marilyn Hacker
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“I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.” -Tim Gunn
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“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.” -Federico Garcia Lorca
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“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” -Constantin Brancusi
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“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.” -Michael Mandelbaum
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“The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it’s a true story.” -Joel Coen
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“We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.” -Tony Scott
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“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.” -Marc Newson
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“I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.” -Sydney Pollack
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“My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.” -Parker Stevenson
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“We all love musical architecture there’s no doubt about that.” -Levon Helm
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“Architecture in general is frozen music.” -Friedrich von Schelling
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“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.” -Robert Smithson
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“Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.” -Bruce Jackson
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“In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.” -Alain Robert
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“Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn’t have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.” -Anthony Holden
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“Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it’s really difficult.” -Robert Palmer
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.” -John Irving
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“I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.” -Caroline Wozniacki
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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” -Le Corbusier
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“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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“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.” -Quincy Jones
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“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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“I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.” -Brad Pitt
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“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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“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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“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.” -Christopher Nolan
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“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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“In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.” -Charles Eames
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“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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“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.” -Alvar Aalto
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“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.” -Arthur Erickson
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“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.” -Havelock Ellis
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“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” -William Bennett
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“Architecture theory is very interesting.” -David Byrne
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“I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you’ll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?” -Jeremy Renner
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“I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.” -Roger Waters
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“I see music as fluid architecture.” -Joni Mitchell
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“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.” -John Ruskin
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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” -Philip Johnson
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“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” -Samuel Butler
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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Steve Martin
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“Architecture begins where engineering ends.” -Walter Gropius
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“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.” -Salvador Dali
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“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.” -Lord Byron
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“Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.” -Hugo Chavez
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“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!” -T. E. Lawrence
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“Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.” -Herbert Simon
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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” -Audre Lorde
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“My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.” -Julia Morgan
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“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.” -John Portman
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“In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.” -Delia Ephron
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“Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.” -Enid Nemy
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“I am but an architectural composer.” -Alexander Jackson Davis
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“As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.” -Harry von Zell
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“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I call architecture frozen music.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” -Coco Chanel
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” -Milton Friedman
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“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” -Bob Dylan
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“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.” -Voltaire
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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” -Victor Hugo
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“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.” -Antonio Gaudi
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“No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.” -Michael Ende
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“Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.” -John Osborne
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“Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.” -Jimmy Breslin
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“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.” -Robert A. M. Stern
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“The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.” -Russell Lynes
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“At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.” -Martin Puryear
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“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.” -James Rouse
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“The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.” -Saul Steinberg
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“Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.” -Daniel Burnham
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“To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.” -Martha Graham
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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” -David Allan Coe
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“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.” -Donna Karan
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“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.” -Thomas Fuller
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“The higher the building the lower the morals.” -Noel Coward
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“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.” -Yoshio Taniguchi
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“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.” -Winston Churchill
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“Whatever good things we build end up building us.” -Jim Rohn
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“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.” -Ayn Rand
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