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Architecture Quotes
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
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"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
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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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"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
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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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"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
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"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
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"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."
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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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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
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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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"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
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"If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture."
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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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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
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"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
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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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"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement."
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"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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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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"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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"I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun."
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"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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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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"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."
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"In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
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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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"In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture."
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"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
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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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"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
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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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"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
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"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
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"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
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"What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"
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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
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"When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts."
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"You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us."
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