"The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was……" — Iain McGilchrist

"The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete."

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16 Quotes by Iain McGilchrist

Iain McGilchrist has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that…
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how…
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of…
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness…
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses…
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as…
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship…
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to…
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that…
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand…

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More Architecture Quotes

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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… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — 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… — 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… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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