Architecture Wisdom

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"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space." - Louis Kahn

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"Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?" - Jeremy Renner

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"I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business." - Caroline Wozniacki

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"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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"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture." - Rem Koolhaas

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"Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere." - Trudie Styler

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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

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"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive." - Helmut Jahn

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"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions." - Helmut Jahn

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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book." - Victor Hugo

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"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects." - Le Corbusier

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"Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way." - Thom Mayne

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"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story." - Joel Coen

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"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture." - Arthur Erickson

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"All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial." - Martin Filler

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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age." - Frank Lloyd Wright

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"I like the architecture of lingerie." - Colleen Atwood

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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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"Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting." - Walter Gropius