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"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
"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."
"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
"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."
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
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