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"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
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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."
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"I call architecture frozen music."
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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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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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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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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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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."
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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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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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"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
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"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
Architecture
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
Civilization
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
Gardening
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
Architecture
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
Home
"What people want, above all, is order."
People
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
War
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
World
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