#architectural

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#fills #possibility #sense

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

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

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

#car #example #fit #fitting-in #parts

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#becomes #elements #justification #longer #nature

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

#cathedral #challenge #good #inventiveness #very