architecture

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Richard Meier

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30 November 2019

architecture

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Edwin Lutyens

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30 November 2019

architecture

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

George Lamming

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30 November 2019

architecture

Architecture is politics.

Mitchell Kapor

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30 November 2019

architecture

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci

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30 November 2019

architecture

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Bernard Levin

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30 November 2019

architecture

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.

Giambattista Valli

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30 November 2019

architecture

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

Gustav Stickley

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30 November 2019

architecture

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Kenzo Tange

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30 November 2019

architecture

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

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30 November 2019

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There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Kenzo Tange

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30 November 2019

architecture

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

James Wyatt

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30 November 2019

architecture

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

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30 November 2019

architecture

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Kenneth Clark

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30 November 2019

architecture

I don’t believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves

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30 November 2019

architecture

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Michael Graves

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30 November 2019

architecture

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Michael Graves

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30 November 2019

architecture

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

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30 November 2019

architecture

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Thomas Reid

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30 November 2019

architecture

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Jean Nouvel

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30 November 2019