Architecture Quotes
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Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.
Dale Chihuly
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My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
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It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
Fabio Novembre
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Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture.
Charles Dallara
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The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
Catherine Deneuve
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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.
Victor Hugo
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I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.
Aldis Hodge
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Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
John Lautner
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Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
Odile Decq
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Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
Martin Filler
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...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.
Cedric Price
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A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
Christian Dior
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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
H. P. Blavatsky
