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Architecture15 quotes
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier · 1923I call architecture frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1829Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1958Architecture in general is frozen music. — Friedrich von Schelling · 1803You 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 · 1987Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet · 1932All 15 quotes →Airports1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Home1 quote
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier · 1923Houses1 quote
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier · 1923Light1 quote
Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642Modern architecture1 quote
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 · 1987Travel1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988