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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.


Marcus V. Pollio


#architect #buildings #care #due #more

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.


Marcus V. Pollio


#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.


John Portman


#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.


Joel Coen


#bit #different #little #little bit #story

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.


John Ruskin


#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.


Saul Steinberg


#become #building #draw #frightening #lines

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.


Maya Lin


#art #different #different way #give #i

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.


Maya Lin


#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.


Maya Lin


#thought #warmth

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.


Maya Lin


#art #because #harder #make #me






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