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Architecture Quotes
"The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
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"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
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"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
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"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
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"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."
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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
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"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting."
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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
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"Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral."
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"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
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"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
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"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
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"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
18
"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
16
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
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"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."
15
"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."
15
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
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"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
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"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
12
"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
12
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
12
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
12
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
12
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
11
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
11
"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
11
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
10
"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."
9
"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."
9
"Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies."
9
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
9
"All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden."
9
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
9
"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact."
8
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
8
"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us."
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"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
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"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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"I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see."
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"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
7
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
7
"One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful."
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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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