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A building is
akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it
is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask
why we have no typical architecture of the modern world,
like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously
because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see
anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in
the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
The principle
of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
In short, the
building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its
functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech
architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if
totally different in form -- from all the romantic
architecture of the past.
-- Dan Cruickshank
The terrifying
and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-- Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter
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The job of
buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must
ease them, not make them worse.
-- Ralph Erskine
Don't fight
forces, use them.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor,
Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Light, God's
eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
Architects,
painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to
grasp the composite character of a building both as an
entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work
be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as
''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create
the new structure of the future, which will embrace
architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and
which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a
million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
-- Walter Gropius
1883-1969, German Architect
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