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Architecture Quotes by Arne Jacobsen
- If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
- 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…
- If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task…
- Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
- And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very…
- Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
- I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
- In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they…
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- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto
- I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown
- Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown