#architect

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

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But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. ↗

— Yoshio Taniguchi

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies. Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

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It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ↗

— Luis Barragan

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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. ↗

— Luis Barragan

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I am but an architectural composer. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

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