Architecture Quotes
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
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Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
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The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.
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A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
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The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
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We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
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The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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It is the queen of architecture. Other buildings may be as famous, but no other is so consistently admired for a beauty that is seen as both feminine and regal. Many people feel that to class Taj Mahal as architecture is a mistake: it is both too personal and too magnificent.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
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In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
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Each new situation requires a new architecture.
