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Art does not embody definitive conclusions, but rather accommodates open possibilities for discussing art’s function in the context of modern society........ |
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Bjørn Nørgaard
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For me the lessons contained in the traditional architecture of the Mexican provinces have been my permanent source of inspiration: their whitewashed walls; the tranquility of their squares surrounded by shady porches........ |
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-- Luis Barragan
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Generally, in Japan, the office an architect is apprenticed to after his graduation from university determines the architectural style he or she pursues and the type of architect he or she eventually becomes........ |
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-- Quote by Shigeru Ban
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The room is the beginning of architecture. It is the place of the mind. You in the room with its dimensions, its structure, its light responds to its character, its spiritual aura?structure, I believe is the giver of light.
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-- Louis I. Kahn
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All good architecture which does not express serenity fails in its spiritual vision........ |
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-- Luis Barragan
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The taste of the apple...lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way...poetry lies in the meeting of poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols prnted on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading........ |
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-- Jorge Luis Borges, Forward to Obra Poetica
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Wonder has nothing to do with knowledge. It is a first response to the intuitive, the intuitive being the odyssey, or the record of the odyssey, of our making through the untold billions of years of making........ |
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..........Louis Kahn..........
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Each new situation requires a new architecture........ |
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-- Quote by Jean Nouvel
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Probably the most politically dangerous area of investigation in architecture is imagining new cities. That is why so few architects tender propositions in this area. It is like walking into a chemistry lab with blindfolds on and beginning to pour.
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-- Quote by Ken Kaplan
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Building is a good solid word. Not just a noun; an object spied in a distant field or an image perused in a magazine. Building is also a verb; a creative act.
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-- Quote by Mike Cadwell
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Every man`s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself........ |
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-- Quote by Samuel Butler
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The dreaded spatial homogeneity and design facileness in many of the skyscrapers built today already suggest the need for an urgent rethink of current approaches to the design of tall buildings.
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-- Ken Yeang
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Architecture is a dangerous profession because it is poisonous mixture of impotence and omnipotence, in the sense that architecture almost invariably harbors megalomaniacal dreams that depends upon others, and upon circumstances, to impose and to realize those fantasies and dreams.
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-- Rem Koolhaas
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Why is it that an egg held with your hands by its top and bottom and pressed with great force cannot be crushed?
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-- Galileo
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If nature had been comfortable Man never would have invented architecture.
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…Oscar Wilde…
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Color is a property of light. Yet physics does not hold the key to unlocking the enigma of colors, as the experience of chromatic space are bound up on mystical effects and philosophical potential.
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-- Steven Holl, Parallax
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[Contemporary architecture] is not just about flat roofs and glass!…It is about a whole construct of light, energy, space, beauty and the relationships between them. I go after the conjunction of the rational and the poetic.
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-- Glen Murcutt
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Architecture as a profession is fascinating and fulfilling; as a business, it is demanding and difficult.
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-- Morris Lapidus, American architect
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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through........ |
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-- Dan Rice
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I consider the monuments to be true hybrids, existing between art and architecture,..
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-- Maya Lin, Award Wining Architect
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