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Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. ↗
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. ↗
It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening. ↗
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We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. ↗
...it is necessary to understand the historical and aesthetical process of cultures involved in the configuration of what we call Latin America. On the other hand we must find out how the cultures mixed and what their mixtures produced. The main stream is still the great history of Western art, which has set aside the artistic expression of other cultures, even though those continue to influence the painting, sculpture and architecture of South America. ↗
Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture. ↗
It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over. ↗
