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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"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."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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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."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"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."
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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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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"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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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
Architecture
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Hope
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect."
Sense
""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
First
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
Children
"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
Disease
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
Land
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
Common sense
"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
Students
"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
Building
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