Architecture

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A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Toward an Architecture

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Topic

Houses Home Architecture

Author

Le Corbusier

Source

Toward an Architecture

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Corbusier, Le. Vers une Architecture. Editions G. Crès et Cie., 1923.

Current Citation

Corbusier, Le. Toward an Architecture. Getty Research Institute, 2007.

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language

German

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "23 Mar. 1829." Gespräche mit Goethe [Conversations with Goethe]. Vol. 2, Leipzig: F. M. Brodhaus, 1836.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "March 23, 1829." Conversations with Goethe, translated by Allen Blunden. Penguin Classics, 2022.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Source

The Living City

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Wright. Frank Lloyd. The Living City. Horizon Press, 1958.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Friedrich von Schelling

Source

Philosophy of Art

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Schelling, Friedrich. Philosophie der Kunst [Philosophy of Art]. 1802-1803. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Schelling, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Art, translated by Douglas W. Stott. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

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.

King Charles III

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Topic

Modern architecture Architecture

Speaker

King Charles III

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

King Charles. Speech at the Mansion House. London Planning and Communication Committee's Annual Dinner. 1 Dec. 1987, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Ernest Dimnet

Source

What We Live By

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Dimnet, Ernest. What We Live By. Simon & Schuster, 1932, pt. 2, ch. 12.

Windows are the eyes to the house.

Parks and Recreation

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Topic

Architecture

Speaker

Andy Dwyer

Actor

Chris Pratt

Source

Parks and Recreation

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

"Campaign Ad." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Alan Yang, directed by Dean Holland, season 4, episode 12, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2012.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

Architecture

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. Speech on plans for the rebuilding of the Chamber. House of Commons meeting. 28 Oct. 1943, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "A sense of crowd and urgency', 28 October 1943, House of Commons." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

On Architecture

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Christopher Wren

Source

On Architecture

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Wren, Christopher. "On Architecture." Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens. London: Thomas Osborn, 1750, appendix, tract 1.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Topic

Airports Travel Architecture

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Read this quote at the New York Times

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Source

The New York Times Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. "What Every Budding Architect Should Know." The New York Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Henry Wotton

Source

Elements of Architecture

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Wotton, Henry. Elements of Architecture. London: John Bill, 1624, pt. 1.

Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

The Holy State and the Profane State

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Topic

Light Architecture

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

Source

The Holy State and the Profane State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1642 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 7.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.

The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time.

Augustus Welby Pugin

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Augustus Welby Pugin

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Pugin, Augustus Welby. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. J. Weale, 1841.