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To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

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Trying to design or reclaim places is, therefore, rather like trying to make or modify life itself. In this effort, it is wisest to adopt the gentle patient manner of an environmental midwife, while rejecting utterly the machine-driven arrogance of some environmental equivalent to a genetic engineer. By such gentle means places might flourish again, but also the world might become less threatened. ↗

— Edward Relph

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Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones. There are obvious examples of virtual sameness trying, by dint of exhibitionism, to appear unique and different from their similar commercial neighbors. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. ↗

— Tadao Ando

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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. ↗

— Tadao Ando

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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. ↗

— Frank Stella

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It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. ↗

— David Allan Coe

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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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