#architect

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ↗

— Martin Mull

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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. ↗

— Marc Newson

#design #kind #mystify #need #people

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#astonishing #drawing #forms #led #light

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#building #integrity #just #like #man

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#business #city #even #planning #slow