Architecture Quotes
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Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
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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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Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
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If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
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Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
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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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Only in movement do we find the true essence of things. Today we can no longer believe in permanent laws, defined religions, durable architecture or eternal kingdoms. Immutability does not exist. All is movement. All is static.
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Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
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In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.
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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
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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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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
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Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.
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In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
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