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Architecture Quotes
"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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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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"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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"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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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
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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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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness."
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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."
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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
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"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
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