Architecture Quotes
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About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
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He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
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In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
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'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
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Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
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I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
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I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
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Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.
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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
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The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
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I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
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In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
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I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.
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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
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I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that.
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
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Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.
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There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
