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" The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. "

Walter Gropius

Serious

Early

Architecture

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" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "

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" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "

" You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. "

" I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. "

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Hope

Young

Architecture

" Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. "

" As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. "

" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "

" Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. "

" Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. "

" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "

" Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. "

" For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. "

James Rouse

Purpose

Improvement

" I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. "

" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "

Louis Kahn

Good

Want

" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "

" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "

" Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. "

" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

" Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "

" The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building! "

" Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth. "