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"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."

Apollinaire, Guillaume · Architecture · 1 fans >>
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"In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture."

Banks-Smith, Nancy · Architecture · 1 fans >>
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"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers."

Barrett, Colleen C. · Architecture · 0 fans >>
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"Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?"

Bayley, Stephen · Architecture · 0 fans >>
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"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

Bierce, Ambrose · Architecture · 1 fans >>
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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."

Brancusi, Constantin · Architecture · 2 fans >>
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"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that."

Charles, Prince Of Wales · Architecture · 0 fans >>
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. · Architecture · 0 fans >>
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"A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. · Architecture · 1 fans >>
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor · Architecture · 0 fans >>
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