Famous Quotes: Architecture

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
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The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
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I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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I see music as fluid architecture.
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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
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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.
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Architecture aims at Eternity.
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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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I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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