Architecture Quotes
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
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The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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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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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
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I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
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I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
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I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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Architecture is definitely a political act.
