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“Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

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Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.”

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Author:Lawrence Lessig

“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.”

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Author:Alvar Aalto

“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.”

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Author:Martin Filler

“Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.”

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Author:Martin Filler

“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

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Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

“The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.”

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Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

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

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Book:Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow

Source: Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow