Quote by Adolf Loos
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task theref

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos

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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. – Adolf Loos

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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. – Adolf Loos

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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. – Adolf Loos

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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. – Stephen Gardiner

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Im drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. – Brad Pitt

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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of. – John Irving

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