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

Architecture, Formula, Logic

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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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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."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."

Michael Graves, American Architect

Architecture, Style

"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."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

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"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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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"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."

"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."

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"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."

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."

"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."

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

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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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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

"What people want, above all, is order."

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

"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."

"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."

"The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man."

"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."