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~ Architecture is frozen music. ~ ~ Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ~ ~ The building is a special place because of its architecture, ... But it's people who make it special by participating in it. ~ ~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain ~ ~ Architecture is frozen music. ~ ~ Architecture is the work of nations. ~ ~ Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. ~ ~ Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ~ ~ The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ~ ~ Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ~ ~ Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ~ ~ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ~ ~ Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ~ ~ Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. ~ ~ There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. ~ ~ Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. ~ ~ Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. ~ ~ Architecture is petrified music. ~ ~ Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. ~ ~ Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to ~ ~ Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture. ~ ~ My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. ~ ~ The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. ~ ~ Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~ ~ Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ~ ~ It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ~ ~ Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ~ ~ Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. ~ ~ Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ~ ~ Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ~ |
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