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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."
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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
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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."
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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
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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."
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"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
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"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."
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"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
Art
"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."
Balance
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Design
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
Architecture
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
Houses
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
Gardening
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
People
"Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave."
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