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" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "
John Updike
Bricks
Architecture
Consciousness
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" Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "
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" What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. "
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" Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. "
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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
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" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "
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" I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. "
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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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" Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. "
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" Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape. "
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" To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. "
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" Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. "
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" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "
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" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "
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" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "
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" Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. "
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" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "
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" The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. "
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" 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. "
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