Architecture Quotes
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Speech structures the abyss of mental and acoustic space...it is a cosmic, invisible architecture of the human dark. (p. 13)
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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
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At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.
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When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
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He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.
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I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
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Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
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Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
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Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
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Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.
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Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.
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The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
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One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
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Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. (p. 120)
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As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are documenting the sacred buildings of Calvinism. Calvinism rejects all forms of art and therefore never developed its own architecture. The buildings we photograph originate directly from this purely economical thinking.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
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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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I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.
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I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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I love architecture.
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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
