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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
"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."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"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."
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
"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."
"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 architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"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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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."
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