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" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "

Ernest Hemingway

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "

Milton Friedman

" By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. "

" Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. "

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