Architecture Quotes
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What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
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I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
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I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
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I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.
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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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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
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Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
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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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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.
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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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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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For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
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I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.
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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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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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To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
