The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
quote by Helmut Jahn
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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.
quote by James Stewart
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
quote by Ian Hamilton Finlay
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General Crossing
Its an old profession
Of subtle artillery.
Rough wheels meshing ---
Button out, button in.
The tall general will mine
A few bridges tonight,
Stroking soft machinery.
Fanfare at dawn
Courting green steel
Lined up for world war one
(two, three, four).
Its an old profession
Of subtle artillery.
Rough wheels meshing ---
On a landscape with no trees.
The tall general points
To the distance ---
Disconnects his power supply.
Writes a stiff note to his nearest
And dearest ---
He takes the battle plan
And contemplates his fly.
The tall general
Flies by the seat of history.
The tall general
Is crossing.
The tall general
He thinks inevitability.
The tall general
Is definitely crossing.
With spit and with polish ---
Time for desperate measures.
The pain in the forehead
From holding up to the pressures
Of life on the rim
Of the convenient alliance.
Out on the rim ---
Let me out on the rim.
The tall general will walk
Across the compound
With his briefcase and i.d.
Later theyll post him
Seemingly missing ---
Hes gone to be a generalski.
song performed by by Jethro Tull
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I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
quote by Roger Waters
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.
quote by Primo Levi
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
quote by Adolf Loos
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
quote by Arne Jacobsen
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The Law That Isn't
The law that isn't!
But should be...
Integrity.
Integrity.
All kinds of crime,
Have been defined.
But...
One escapes from a state of mind.
Integrity!
The law that isn't.
Integrity.
integrity!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Peace Proposal
Said General Clay to General Gore really must we fight this silly war
To kill and die in such a bore I quite agree said General Gore
Said General Gore to General Clay we could go to the beach today
And have some icecream on the way a grand idea said General Clay
Said General Clay to General Gore we'll build sand castles on the shore
Said General Gore we'll splash and play let's leave right now said General Clay
Said General Gore to General Clay but what if the sea's closed today
And what if the sand's been blown away the dreadful thought said General Clay
Said General Gore to General Clay I've always feared the ocean's spray
And we may drown it's true we may it chills my blood said General Clay
Said General Clay to General Gore my bathin' suit is slightly tore
We better go on with our war I quite agree said General Gore
The General Clay chanrged General Gore as bullets flew and cannons roared
And now at last there is no more of General Clay or General Gore
poem by Sheldon Allan Silverstein
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And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
quote by Arne Jacobsen
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Generals
Said General Clay to General Gore,
'Oh must we fight this silly war?
To kill and die is such a bore.'
'I quite agree,' said General Gore.
Said General Gore to General Clay,
'We could go to the beach today
And have some ice cream on the way.'
'A grand idea,' said General Clay.
Said General Gore to General Clay,
'But what if the sea is closed today?
And what if the sand's been blown away?'
'A dreadful thought,' said General Clay.
Said General Gore to General Clay,
'I've always feared the ocean's spray,
And we may drown!' 'It's true, we may.
It chills my blood,' said General Clay.
Said General Clay to General Gore,
'My bathing suit is slightly tore.
We'd better go on with our war.'
'I quite agree,' said General Gore.
Then General Clay charged General Gore
As bullets flew and cannons roared.
And now, alas! there is no more
Of General Clay or General Gore.
poem by Sheldon Allan Silverstein
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
quote by G.K. Chesterton
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Architecture in general is frozen music.
quote by Friedrich von Schelling
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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
quote by Christopher Durang
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Integrity
As if a golden grain of sand
That is lost to the hand,
When integrity is gone forever,
It severs a chance to extol
The state of being whole.
Then perfection’s fate
Is no longer open to debate,
Since the tragic selection
Is integrity’s imperfection.
Protect every precious grain
With principles that reign
And guide the astute
Who know that integrity is not
Relative, but always absolute
Nothing less than
The very essence of petrescence.
poem by Gregory Huyette
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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
quote by Gerald F. Lieberman
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Blues For The Teacher Condemned By Officialdom To Toil In The Alcatraz Of The Slums
To be disrespected and hounded out of a classroom
Full of pupils whose breaths stink of marijuana,
To be howled at by their alcoholic parents who give not
A damn about their drunk and deviant children's education,
To be their pawn in the racket of this miseducation
To watch with silent fascinated disbelief as they divert
And loot into their bulging pockets the money meant to be
Thrown away into the bottomless hole of black education,
To be a tool in the hands of the principals who gobble the school funds,
To be used by the H.O.Ds and the L.Fs whose
Ambitions is to rapidly advance their own careers at one's expense,
To be loyal and obedient to a government that underpays you,
To be dedicated to a profession that is infested
With the mediocre and the self serving,
To be surrounded by mass stupidity every day,
To be humiliated and denounced at will by officialdom
Throughout the bitter years of one's teaching career,
To be pursued by creditors and long lost lovers,
To be driven to alcoholism,
To look back in despair,
To collapse in a heap of broken
Dreams and wishes and ambitions
To be like the ornament of the ghetto
To be forgotten
To die
poem by Ngaka Motaung
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I Lost It All!
Through z stupid words comes from your heart
I lost it all, what ma idea over u was
Through z pretending what u were acting
I lost ma attention, what I was take caring
Through z lie u told me before
I lost what I was trusting; I lost ma faith at all
Through z things u do I hate most
I hate u at all, my love is oready lost
Through z untrue, nestles confession
I lost all your profession what I was exaggerating
Through every thing I have been hurted, u have been hurted little, too
I lost ma mind, what I was expecting to enjoy z joy with u
I lost it all! ! !
written by someone who loves you
poem by estif Gebru
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
quote by Allen Tate
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