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“If I have a style, I am not aware of it.”
— Michael Graves
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“Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.”
— John Osborne
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“Form follows function.”
— Louis Sullivan
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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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“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”
— Tadao Ando
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“Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.”
— Jimmy Breslin
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“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.”
— Robert A. M. Stern
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“The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.”
— Harry Seidler
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“The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.”
— Russell Lynes
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“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”
— Antonio Gaudi
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“In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.”
— Michael Graves
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“At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.”
— Martin Puryear
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“We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.”
— Minoru Yamasaki
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“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.”
— Donna Karan
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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
— Le Corbusier
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“Less is more.”
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
— Thomas a Kempis
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“Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.”
— Helmut Jahn
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“A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.”
— Helmut Jahn
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“As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.”
— Harry von Zell
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“I am but an architectural composer.”
— Alexander Jackson Davis
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“I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?”
— Philip Johnson
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“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
— Yoshio Taniguchi
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“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
— Alexander Jackson Davis
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“Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.”
— Enid Nemy
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