“Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.”
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architecture
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“But the building's identity resided in the ornament.”
“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.”
“I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?”
“A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.”
“Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.”
“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.”
“We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.”
“Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.”
“What people want, above all, is order.”
“The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.”
“If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.”
“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”
“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.”
“Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.”
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”
“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”
“No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.”
“If I have a style, I am not aware of it.”
“Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.”
“Form follows function.”
“The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.”
“Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.”