“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
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“Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.”
— Thom Mayne
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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. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.”
— Kenzo Tange
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“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”
— Ernest Dimnet
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“The higher the building the lower the morals.”
— Noel Coward
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“The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.”
— Christopher Nolan
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“There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.”
— James H. Breasted
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“The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.”
— John Irving
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“I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.”
— Richard Rogers
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“One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.”
— Oksana Baiul
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“Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.”
— Adolf Loos
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