If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Le Corbusier in Vers une architecture (1923)
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In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
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In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
quote by Alain Robert
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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.
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In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
quote by Henry Watton
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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.
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It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
quote by Minoru Yamasaki
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
quote by Parker Stevenson
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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
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I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
quote by Tadao Ando
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I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
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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.
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