"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."

Architecture, Public

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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

Architecture, Choice, Research

"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."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Architecture, History, Innovation, Irony

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Architecture, Truth, Paradox

"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

Architecture, Power, Expression, Humanity

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Clouds, Rules

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

Steven Magee, British Author

Architecture, Design, Environment, Darkness

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Architecture, Beginning, Quiet, Voice

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Art, Sunset

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

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

Architecture, Building, Theory

"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

Architecture, Music, Work, Literature

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."

American

"War is an abstraction."

War

"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."

Burden

"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

War

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."

Home

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."

Friendship

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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."

"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."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"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."

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

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

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

"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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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

"The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war."

"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us."

"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."

"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."

"War is an abstraction."

"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."

"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."