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" I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. "
Charles Jencks
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" There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London. "
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" If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. "
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" I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. "
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" Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. "
John Lautner
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Life
" I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. "
Dexter Fletcher
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Love
Beautiful
" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Two
Together
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" I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. "
David Shields
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I Am
" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "
Hugh Hardy
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Human
" A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings. "
Ma Yansong
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" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "
Bjarke Ingels
Live
Science
Art
" Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture. "
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" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "
Thomas Heatherwick
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" Architecture is art, nothing else. "
Philip Johnson
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" After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. "
Harry Seidler
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" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "
Martin Mull
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Writing
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" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "
Richard Rogers
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" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "
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" Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside. "
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" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "
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" Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. "
Leon Krier
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" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "
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" I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. "
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" I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. "
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Worst
" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "
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American
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" When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. "
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