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architecture eternity aim
Architecture aims at Eternity Christopher Wren
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Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman. Ann Coulter
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Wherever possible, ... I'd like to see Charlotte architects and contractors used. I'd like to keep the Charlotte taxpayers' money here in Charlotte.
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To express is to drive.And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature.And there is where Design comes in.And if you think of Brick, for instance,and you say to Brick,""What do you want Brick?""And Brick says to you""I like an Arch.""And if you say to Brick""Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lentil over you. What do you think of that?""""Brick?""Brick says:""... I like an Arch Louis Kahn
architecture curiously england found history imperial post return town
To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens. Romesh Gunesekera
architecture heredity invention necessity strong
Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
architecture mortar
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. John Updike
architecture art comparable lands
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. Theodor Mommsen
architecture asking changing repetitive result
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Thom Mayne
architecture art highly
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
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I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'
architecture job life
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
architecture involved
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
architecture asking good understand
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
architect best client cost draw engage parameters process terms works
The process works best if the architect is able to engage the client and draw out all the important parameters in terms of cost and design.
architecture massive value
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. Thomas Heatherwick
architects bringing criticise devote people taste themselves whether
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.
architect public
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. Toyo Ito
architect architecture describe functions internet principles
What we do is architect the Internet, and the Internet is still a pretty rollicking place. We describe different functions that get done and principles by which they work, which is a different way to do architecture.
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What we can do is try and devise the right architecture for the financial systems of the world which leads to greater stability, more openness and more transparency, Tony Blair
archer paper toilets
The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time. Bob Monkhouse
archer thinking people
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them. Edith Wharton
archer sacrifice long
But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
architecture gothic-architecture
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Arne Jacobsen
architecture moments playing wish
There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent. David Ogden Stiers
architecture both bring quiet tried
We tried to bring in both the architecture and the wrought-iron. We wanted a look of restrained, quiet opulence.
architecture early imitate says
We didn't want to imitate the architecture that was 100 years old. We wanted something that says it was done in the early part of the 21st century.
architecture job putting skill works
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is. Joshua Bell
archeology fell histories love myths
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels. Kerry Greenwood
architects designers exhibit hardly noticeable reflected
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin. Olafur Eliasson
architect asked beijing breathe certainly directly harmful museum project protect safe smoke whether
I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.
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Women are the architects of society Cher
archer wings clouds
The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way. Charles Baudelaire