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Architecture Quotes
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One voice here admits thinking about architecture constantly, even dreaming about it, while flatly calling the field unnecessarily difficult. See Design quotes for related thoughts on the creative process behind it.
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- Sand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
- Exhaustive
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
- Less Is More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less is more.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020