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Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
Good
Architecture
Good Things
Build
Building
Whatever
End
Up
Us
Things
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe
Time
You
Construction
Architecture
Will
Beauty
Building
Look
Test
Should
Stand
Foundation
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
I. M. Pei
Architecture
Evolutionary
Part
Revolutionary
Modern
Process
Needed
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
Government
Science
Architecture
Agriculture
Painting
Civilization
Never
Advances
Come
Industry
Greatest
Whether
Literature
Centralized
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
Future
Faith
Day
Together
Architecture
Will
Painting
Unity
One Day
Embrace
Rise
Structure
Toward
Conceive
New
Like
Crystal
Hands
Heaven
Which
Us
Create
Workers
Sculpture
Let Us
Million
Symbol
Desire
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde
Future
Change
Architecture
Vision
Fears
Before
Our
Our Lives
Dream
Only
Poetry
Lays
Never
Been
Skeleton
Across
Bridge
Foundations
Lives
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.
Cherie Lunghi
Art
Good
Me
History
Soul
Book
Architecture
Enjoy
Tree
Churches
Insight
Temples
Shade
Beach
Gives
Like
Also
Bum
Anything
Place
Warm
Sea
Good Book
Float
Palm
Museums
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
Art
Architecture
Space
How
Waste
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Work
Music
Man
Architecture
Every
Else
Pictures
Himself
Always
Anything
Anything Else
Whether
Literature
Portrait
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner
Good
People
Architecture
Problems
Good People
Design
Solved
Come
Buildings
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art
Soul
Architecture
Mother
Own
Our
Civilization
Without
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin
Art
Me
People
Architecture
Try
Looking
Way
Give
Surroundings
Different
Different Way
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr
Politics
Beautiful
Good
Architecture
Crime
Gun
Gun Control
Country
Control
Reputation
Strictest
City
Corrupt
Some
Windy
Laws
Also
Known
Chicago
Expensive
Stores
Unfortunately
Anywhere
Violent
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You
Together
Architecture
Carefully
Starts
Put
Begins
Bricks
Two
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
Work
Hope
Architecture
Logical
Will
Long
Big
Gone
Living
Aim
Aim High
Once
High
Insistence
Recorded
Remembering
Noble
Make
Diagram
Itself
Die
After
Plans
Asserting
Thing
Living Thing
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Alvar Aalto
Fruit
People
Architecture
Paradise
Build
Every
Our
Earthly
House
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Endeavour
Create
Should
Product
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
Art
Architecture
Building
Becomes
Then
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
Game
Architecture
Light
Correct
Magnificent
Learned
Forms
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Zaha Hadid
You
Architecture
Simple
Calm
Think
Able
About
Only
Excite
Make
Shelter
Very
Should
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
Architecture
First
Goodness
Duty
Pleasing
Kinds
Practical
Well
Buildings
Doing
Graceful
Then
Require
Two
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin
Music
Architecture
Dancing
About
Like
Talking
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Time
Day
Great
Age
Architecture
Poet
Every
Must
Architect
He
His
Original
Necessarily
Interpreter
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Brad Pitt
Architecture
Design
Complete
Furniture
Scale
Drawn
Minor
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Christian Louboutin
Music
Architecture
Own
Poetry
Inspiring
Because
Istanbul
Literature
Code
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron
Man
Architecture
Three
Painting
Hundred
Dress
Outlived
Poetry
New
Schools
Eighty
Two
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
Martin Filler
Architecture
Master
Become
Before
Apprenticeship
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Carpenter
Mason
Builder
His
Begin
Century
Standard
Aspiring
Twenties
Fourteen
Early
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