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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth"
Michael Graves, Architect
"It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this"
Michael Graves, Architect
"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good"
Michael Graves, Architect
"If I have a style, I am not aware of it"
Michael Graves, Architect
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture"
Michael Graves, Architect
"I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people"
Michael Graves, Architect
"I don't believe in morality in architecture"
Michael Graves, Architect
"I'm about four skyscrapers behind"
Philip Johnson, Architect
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space"
Philip Johnson, Architect
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
Philip Johnson, Architect
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space"
Philip Johnson, Architect
"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"What people want, above all, is order"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
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