“You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.”
— Walter Russell Mead
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“The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.”
— Adolf Loos
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“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”
— T. E. Lawrence
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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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“I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.”
— Daniel Libeskind
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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
— Philip Johnson
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“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
— David Byrne
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“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”
— Tadao Ando
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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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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
— John Ruskin
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“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
— Constantin Brancusi
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