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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
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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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"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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"I call architecture frozen music."
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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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"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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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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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 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."
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"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."
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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."
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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."
Architecture
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
Experience
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
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"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
Nature
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
Tradition
"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
Years
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
Engineering
"Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within."
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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
Architecture
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