#architectural

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. ↗

— Ice Cube

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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

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I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

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Architectural romance: "Romance is not something that fits". An example; parts that are unlike those not exactly true, but also a car that just fits in the garage. ↗

— Leopold van de Ven

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I'm not an architectural composer. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#composer #i

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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