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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #architecture




A house is a machine for living in.


Le Corbusier


#house #living #machine

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.


Le Corbusier


#create #function #objects #order #put

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.


Salvador Dali


#architecture #beauty #edible #nouveau #terrifying

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.


Thomas Fuller


#beauty #building #daughter #eldest #god

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.


Rebecca Solnit


#architecture

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.


Ian Fleming


#las-vegas #traps #architecture

Jakarta telah menjadi sekadar tempat bertahan hidup, bukan tempat hidup yang mampu memberi arti keberadaan kepada penghuni yang tinggal di dalamnya.


Avianti Armand


#philosophy #architecture

Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal world, along with the social identities and injustices that those boundaries have defined for all of us.


Leslie Weisman


#feminism #architecture

What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone. “That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it with.” He nodded easily, as if this same thought had occurred to him. “I notice different things,” I continued. “Like with you, I pay more attention to the details of the buildings – the textures, the colors, the people standing in front of them. The reflections are different.” “Reflections?” he asked quietly. “They are.” I watched our bodies morph and distort in the window of an empty bank. “You’re there,” I said. “That’s how they’re different.


Jessica Hawkins


#chicago #city #romance #the-cityscape-series #architecture

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.


Beatriz Colomina


#media #architecture






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