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" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "
Larry Wall
Think
Architecture
Music
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" If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. "
Charles Jencks
Architecture
Look
Leaf
" I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. "
Thom Mayne
Change
Political
People
" Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. "
Thomas Gibson
Shine
City
Rain
" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "
Maya Lin
Choose
Art
Architecture
" Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. "
Charles Jencks
Grace
Architecture
Modern
" There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. "
Edwin Lutyens
Never
Great
Will
" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "
David Allan Coe
Construction
Architecture
Beauty
" Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. "
John Howe
Culture
Art
History
" Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. "
Richard Rogers
Architecture
Living
Future
" I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. "
Larry Wall
Never
Everything
Want
" Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it. "
Hisham Matar
Studying
Passion
Great
" When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself. "
Tim Burton
Architecture
Car
Yourself
" I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. "
Philip Warren Anderson
Architecture
Play
Game
" Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. "
Theodor Mommsen
Art
Find
Nothing
" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "
Renzo Piano
Criticism
You
Harmony
" An important work of architecture will create polemics. "
Richard Meier
Create
Architecture
Important
" In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. "
Philip Treacy
Love
Architecture
You
" Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. "
Kenzo Tange
Architecture
Today
More
" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Any
Ideology
Political
" The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. "
Peter Eisenman
Power
Architecture
Less
" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "
I. M. Pei
Flying
You
Architecture
" I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old. "
Magnus Larsson
Old
Advertising
Architecture
" To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. "
I. M. Pei
Me
Architecture
Free
" The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. "
D. B. Weiss
Vision
Architecture
Life
" It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. "
Gretchen Rubin
Study
Life
Architecture
" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "
Kenzo Tange
Mission
Special
Planning
" The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. "
Nick Clegg
Politics
Architecture
You
" A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. "
Lord Byron
Three
Architecture
Dress
" 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. "
Arne Jacobsen
Nothing
Architecture
Art
" When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. "
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Independence
Struggle
He