“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.”
— Richard Rogers
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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are
“Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.”
— Herbert Simon
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If architecture is, as is sometimes said,
“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.”
— Michael Mandelbaum
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When I write now I do not
“When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.”
— Juan Goytisolo
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Technological considerations are of great importance to
“Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.”
— Kenzo Tange
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
— Coco Chanel
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Talking about music is like dancing about
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
— Steve Martin
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But I absolutely believe that architecture is
“But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.”
— Thom Mayne
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To create architecture is to put in
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
— Le Corbusier
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Architecture is about public space held by
“Architecture is about public space held by buildings.”
— Richard Rogers
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I strive for an architecture from which
“I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.”
— Helmut Jahn
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