#architecture

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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But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

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

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. ↗

— Harry von Zell

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You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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I see music as fluid architecture. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. ↗

— Marc Newson

#design #kind #mystify #need #people

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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