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"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
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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 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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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
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"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
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"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
Conservation
"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."
Manufacturing
"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
School
"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."
Architecture
"In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver."
Quality
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
Change
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
Architecture
"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
Architecture
"Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high."
Goal
"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."
Thought
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