Famous Quotes: Architecture

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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Architecture is politics.
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In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
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My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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