Architecture Quotes
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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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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
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Architecture is the work of nations.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
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I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.
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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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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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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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I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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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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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.
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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'
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I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
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I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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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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Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.
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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.
