Architecture Quotes
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There is always a conflict and that even increases as I get older. I have to be on my guard not to oversimplify things, but you can hardly deny that architecture is physical presence.
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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.
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It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
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My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
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The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
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Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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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.'
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The mullein had finished blooming, and stood up out of the pastures like dusty candelabra. The flowers of Queen Anne's lace had curled up into birds' nests, and the bee balm was covered with little crown-shaped pods. In another month -- no, two, maybe -- would come the season of the skeletons, when all that was left of the weeds was their brittle architecture. But the time was not yet. The air was warm and bright, the grass was green, and the leaves, and the lazy monarch butterflies were everywhere.
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
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I am involved in the architecture of space.
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
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The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
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Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
