"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts."
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"Architects cannot teach nature anything."
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"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."
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"in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it."
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"The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture."
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"Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy."
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"Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one."
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"The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine."
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"Don't just look at buildings ... watch them."
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"All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it."
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"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture"
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"For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect."
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"The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry."
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"I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries."
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"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."
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"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
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"The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture."
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"A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons."
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"The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect."
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"As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that."
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