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Architecture Quotes
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
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"All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden."
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"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
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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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"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
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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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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
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"Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies."
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"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart."
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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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"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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"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
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"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
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"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
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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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"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
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"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
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"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
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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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"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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"Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
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"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
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"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."
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"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
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"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe."
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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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"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
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"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture."
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"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
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"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."
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"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."
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"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
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"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
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"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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