Architecture Quotes
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Architecture is the work of nations.
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
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I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.
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Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
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The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
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Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.
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I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
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I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy.
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All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.
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There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
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Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.
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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
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Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
