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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 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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"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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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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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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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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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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"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
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"What people want, above all, is order."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
World
"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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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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"The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man."
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