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Architecture Quotes
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."
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"Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."
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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."
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"I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time."
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"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
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"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
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"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
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"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"
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"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."
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"In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement."
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"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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"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."
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"Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families."
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"After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings."
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"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."
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"Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture."
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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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"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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"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
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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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"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."
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"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."
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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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"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
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"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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"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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"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
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"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."
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"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
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"But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean."
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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
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"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
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"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
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"For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation."
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"Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult."
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"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
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