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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past." »Dan Cruickshank
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"architecture is the art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"architecture, n The art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe
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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." »Samuel Butler
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
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"Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma." »E. B. White
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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination." »Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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