1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time. Friedrich St. Florian

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I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really. Friedrich St. Florian

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I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that? Friedrich St. Florian

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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. George Edmund Street

An absolutely different and distinctive character. George Edmund Street

Character Distinctive Absolutely Different

We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich. George Edmund Street

Must Towns Go York Bristol

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country. George Edmund Street

Country Churches Town Importance Equally Essential Which Necessary

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. Giles Gilbert Scott

Gift Matter Church Made Every Out Statue Case Atrocious Delicate Somewhat Know Endeavour Refuse Should Keep

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go. Greg Lynn

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Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular. Greg Lynn

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It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create. Greg Lynn

People Living Incredibly Exciting Know Create Using Things

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored. Greg Lynn

Clothes Tailored Like Necessarily

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space. Greg Lynn

Science Space Rocket Science Design Out Sacred Rocket Turns

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. Gustav Stickley

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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. Harry Seidler

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