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"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
Thought
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
Art
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
Design
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
Art
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
People
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
Man
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
Nature
"The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark."
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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."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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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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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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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."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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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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"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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