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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

“But the building's identity resided in the ornament.”

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Author:Louis Sullivan

“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.”

“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”

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Author:Salvador Dali

“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”

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Author:Alvar Aalto

“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”

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Author:Tadao Ando

“At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.”

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Author:Ben Nicholson

“Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”

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Book:The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

Source: The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.”

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Book:The Future of Architecture

Source: The Future of Architecture

“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”

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Author:Arthur Erickson

“Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude”

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Author:Marcel Breuer

“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”

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Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

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