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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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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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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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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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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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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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"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 architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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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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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
World
"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."
Men
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses
"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
Wisdom
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
War
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
Architecture
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
Houses
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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