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A structure
becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements
no longer have their justification in nature.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire
1880-1918, Italian-born
French Poet, Critic
In my
experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by
extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
-- Nancy Banks-Smith
When it comes
to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more
bricklayers.
-- Colleen C. Barrett
''Where do
architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of
course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is
it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and
plagiarism?
-- Stephen Bayley
1951-, British Design Critic
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Architect. One
who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your
money.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Architecture
is inhabited sculpture.
-- Constantin Brancusi
1876-1957, Romanian Sculptor
You have to
give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our
buildings it did not replace them with anything more
offensive than rubble. We did that.
-- Prince Of Wales Charles
1948-, Duke of Edinburgh, Son
of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
All
architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps
architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of
fireworks.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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