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"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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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 logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
Architecture
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
Civilization
"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
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"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
Order
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
Home
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
World
"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."
Ideas
"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."
Living
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
Civilization
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
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