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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? ↗

— Philip Johnson

#beach #build #buildings #hate #i

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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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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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

#longing #architecture

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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