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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

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Author:Frank Gehry

“Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.”

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.”

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Author:Bobby Seale

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”

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Author:Philip Johnson

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

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Author:Philip Johnson

“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”

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Author:Louis Kahn

“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”

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Author:Louis Kahn

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”

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Book:Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings

“Always beware an unsigned architectural design.”

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Author:Martin Filler

“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”

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Author:Jeanne Gang

“The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.”

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Author:E. J. W. Barber

“Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.”

Source: Blind Submission: A Novel

“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.”

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Author:Tadao Ando