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Architecture Quotes
"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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"Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
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"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
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"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."
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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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"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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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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"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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"In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture."
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
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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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"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
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"In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement."
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"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
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"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
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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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"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
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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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"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
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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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"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."
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"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."
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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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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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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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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
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