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When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

~Cesar Pelli

Topics: Architecture Designing Discovered Fell Had Knack Love Remain School Started

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Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful?

~Cesar Pelli

Topics: About Acquire Adds Am Architecture Beautiful Beautiful Thing Brand Brand New Dimensions Every Forced Impossible Life My Life Myself New Project Renew Retired Thing Wonderful Would I Am

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Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture.

~Charles Dallara

Topics: About Architecture Deal Even Flaws Fundamental Future Greece Heart Itself Observers Officials Part Questions Raise Some Struggles While

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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

~Charles Eames

Topics: Architecture Design Direct Idea More Pleasurable Route

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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Blocks Coup Died Dynamite Final Given Grace Infamous July Louis Missouri Modern Rather Scheme Several St. Louis Were

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If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Any Architecture Branch Cheaply Complexity Computer Efficiently Exactly Get How Just Leaf Look Methods New Previous Produced Production Quickly Repetition Science Showing Similar Slight Tree Using Variation You

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Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Being Different Explaining General Modern Only Repetitive Rooms Suffered Van Were

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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Art Believe Beyond Say Sensational Should Something

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I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Art Artists Because Become Been Between Car Down Fact In Fact Inspired Just Most Park Parks Perfect Piece Pieces Sculpture Should Site Things Working Wrote

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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

~Charlie Cox

Topics: About Always Architecture Asked Choose Clearly Front Get History Just Like Live London Most Seeing Something Special Through Very Where Would You

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