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" A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. "
Great
Building
Architecture
" Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. "
Architecture
Truth
Out
" Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. "
Architecture
Making
Space
" Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. "
Architecture
Struck
Between
" A room is not a room without natural light. "
Without
Room
Natural
" Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. "
Event
Architecture
Consider
" Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. "
Integration
Beauty
Love
" Every building must have... its own soul. "
Every
Must
Soul
" Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. "
Mind
Past
College
" How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering. "
Privilege
You
Book
" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "
Good
Want
Me
" In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room. "
Say
Would
Room
" I try to create homes, not houses. "
Homes
Create
Try
" The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution. "
Own
You
Build
" The street is a room by agreement. "
Street
Agreement
Room
" What does a house want to be? "
Does
Want
House
" You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' "
I Can
You
Think
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