Architecture Quotes
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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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To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
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Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.
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Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?
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I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.
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I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
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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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There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
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I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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 is about public space held by buildings.
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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
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Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
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I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
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The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
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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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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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Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.
