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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture Quotes
Buildings that shape how we think about places.
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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- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020