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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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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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