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Architecture aims at Eternity. - Christopher Wren

Architecture aims at Eternity. – Christopher Wren

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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. – Christopher Wren

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I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. – Philip Warren Anderson

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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. – James Rouse

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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. – Jimmy Breslin

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. – Michael Graves

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