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" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "
Henry David Thoreau
Without
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" Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. "
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" 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. "
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" Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. "
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" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "
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" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "
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" It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. "
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Speak
Another
Hear
" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "
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" I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. "
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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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" I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. "
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" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "
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" There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. "
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" I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. "
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Done
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