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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Architecture Definition

(n.) The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.

(n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.

Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Simple is complicated.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

What people want, above all, is order.

The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to aban...

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it su...

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.