Architecture Quotes
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It takes a great client to create great architecture.
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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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I am involved in the architecture of space.
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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
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I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
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I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
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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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The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle . . .
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Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. (p. 120)
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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
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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.
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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
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Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
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I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
