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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
Tadao Ando
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Stephen Gardiner
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Michael Graves
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Arthur Erickson
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
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I am but an architectural composer.
Alexander Jackson Davis
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Alex Winter
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
Rem Koolhaas
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan
