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"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

"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."

"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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"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."


"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."


"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."


"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."


"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."


"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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