A1 Architect Dictums

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"Buildings should be planned with austerity in mind and its stability forever as the aim of true architecture, that buildings must be progressive, simple in design but dignified, true to a purpose without resorting to an applied set of aesthetics and should eternally recreate truth"

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Pablo S. Antonio

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“ Creating Architecture that is both modern & undeniably Filipino.”

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Leandro V. Locsin

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“Architecture must respond to local conditions"

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Francisco ‘Bobby” Manosa:“

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"honesty of conception and the principled concern for human requirements transcending the irrelevancies of prejudice and instinct"

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Gabriel Formoso

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“ A Pragmatic Approach to Architecture”
His famous equations : 0 + 0 + 0 = 100

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Gilbert Yu

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“ Good Architecture is not based on Design but on the buildings function.

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Ramon S. Licup

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“ He Makes the fullest possible use of natural light & ventilation."

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Felipe Mendoza

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“ More on Vertical Approach.”

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William Vargas Coscolluela

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“ The structure must be well oriented.”

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Ceasar Homero Concio

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“ Office bldgs. are no longer simply spaces but are now termed” Intelligent Bldgs.”

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Claude Edwin Andrews

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"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"

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Louis Kahn

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“Art and Architecture, the new unity”

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Walter Gropius

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"Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Form does not necessarily follow function”

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Antonio Gaudi

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“A house is a house”

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Louis Kahn

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“Cube within a cube

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Le Corbusier

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"Less is a bore"

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Robert Venturi

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"The house is a machine for living in"

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Le Corbusier

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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die"

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Daniel Burnham

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“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity”

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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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“Less is more”

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Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

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"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"

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Philip Johnson

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“Architectural-form equals social-form”

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Eliel Saarinen

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“Modern architecture need not to be Western”

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Kenzo Tange

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“Function influence but does not dictate form”

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Eero Saarinen

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"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"

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Daniel Burnham

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“Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.”

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Eliel Saarinen

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“A bridge is like a house.”

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Robert Maillart

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“Truth is indispensable to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”

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Auguste Perret

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“Form follows beauty.”

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Oscar Niemeyer

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“Structural correctness, which is identical with functional, technical & economic is a necessary & sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result.”

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Pier Luigi Nervi

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“Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”

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Erich Mendelsohn

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“Supply and demand regulate architecture form”

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Adolf Loos

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“Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.”

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Erich Mendelsohn

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space ”

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Philip Johnson

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“Architecture is a social art.”

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Marcel Lajos Breuer

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“Architecture begins where engineering ends”

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Walter Gropius

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“Architecture is invention.”

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Oscar Niemeyer

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"I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit.

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Frank Gehry

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"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of
necessity."

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I. M. Pei

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"I am a hedonist, and I want to give pleasure to other people."

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Jean Nouvel

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"By law, all buildings should be white."

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Le Corbusier

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"Form ever follows function."

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Louis Sullivan

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"I believe that the language of architecture is not a question of a specific style. "

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Peter Zumthor

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"Create beautiful things. That’s all."

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Philip Johnson

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"Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it."

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Buckminster Fuller

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"... I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the
rainbow."

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Richard Meier

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“Where the architects task is to restore a correct order of values… it is still the architects duty to attempt to humanize age of machines. But this should not be done without regard for form”

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Alvar Aalto

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"I am always searching for more light and space."

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Santiago Calatrava

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Everyone used to want to be star architects. That’s no longer the case.

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Shigeru Ban

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“The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal”

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Kenzo Tange

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“Architecture is Organic”

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Frank Llyod Wright

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A truly great work of architecture must express harmony, simplicity, organic beauty, natural integrity, and beauty.

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Pablo Antonio

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"Gods is in the details."

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Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

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“I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?”

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Philip Johnson

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“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.”

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Kenzo Tange

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”

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Philip Johnson

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“Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less.”

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Alvar Aalto

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“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

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Le Corbusier

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“No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”

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John Ruskin

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“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

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Le Corbusier

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“It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.”

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Louis Sullivan

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“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”

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Rem Koolhaas

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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

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Frank Gehry

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"When change needs, asks a stranger”

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Peter Behrens

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“Each one sees whatever he wishes to see”

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Lucio Costa

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I call architecture frozen music.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Voltaire

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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

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Luis Barragan

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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

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Louis Kahn

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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

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Antonio Gaudi

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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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Le Corbusier

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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

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Tadao Ando

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

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Richard Rogers

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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

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Daniel Libeskind

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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.

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Arthur Erickson

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Architecture theory is very interesting.

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David Byrne

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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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Maya Lin

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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

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Luis Barragan

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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

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Julia Morgan

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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

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Constantin Brancusi

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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

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Minoru Yamasaki

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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

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Vitruvius

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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

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Antonio Gaudi

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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

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Daniel Libeskind

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I don't believe in morality in architecture.

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Michael Graves

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Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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Jean Nouvel

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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

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Alvar Aalto

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There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

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Kenzo Tange

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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

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Zaha Hadid

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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

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Steve Martin

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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

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Tadao Ando

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Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

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Louis Kahn

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Architecture aims at Eternity.

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Christopher Wren

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

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Tadao Ando

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Architecture is art, nothing else.

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Philip Johnson

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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

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Alvar Aalto

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"When we built, let us think that we build for ever."

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John Ruskin

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The great thing about being an architect is that you can walk into your dreams."

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Robert A.M. Stern

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"Architecture is the work of the nations."

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John Ruskin

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Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical."

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Kenzo tange

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"We are called to be architects of the future, not it's victims."

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Buckminster Fuller

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"The sun does not realize how wonderful it is until after a room is made."

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Louis Kahn

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"There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one."

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Zaha Hadid

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"Life is architecture, and architecture is the mirror of life."

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I.M. Pei

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"I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do."

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Frank Gehry

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"A museum is a place where one should lose one's head."

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Renzo Piano

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"A moder, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy."

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Walter Gropius

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"Architecture...is then among the most important arts, and it is desirable to introduce taste into an art which shows so much."

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Thomas Jefferson

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"Doing more with less."

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Buckminster Fuller

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"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

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Rem Koolhass

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"Our architecture reflects truly a mirror."

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Louis Sullivan

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"A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away."

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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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Leonardo da Vinci

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"Architecture doesn't come from theory: You don't think your way through a building."

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Arthur Erickson