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Architecture Quotes by Daniel Libeskind
- To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
- Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
- Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every…
- I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and…
- Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built
- Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
- In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes…
- Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine
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- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto
- 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
- 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