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“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over”
Ernest Hemingway
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.”
“Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair”
Karen Moyer
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
Philip Johnson
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”
Le Corbusier
“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”
“Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.”
Lorraine Lee Cudmore
“Architecture is politics.”
Mitchell Kapor
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