#arch

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition. ↗

— Magic Johnson

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#art #how #space #waste

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

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Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch. ↗

— Angus T. Jones

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Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

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Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#beautiful #beautiful things #business #hopefully #inspirational

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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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

#arch #barrel #extended #inventors #romans