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"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
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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."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"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."
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
"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."
"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
"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."
"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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"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
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