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"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
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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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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact."
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"The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present."
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"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."
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"Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art."
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"The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people."
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"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
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"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."
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"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."
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"The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not."
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"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."
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"Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable."
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