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 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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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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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. – Luis Barragan

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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. – James Wyatt

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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think its still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall

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Architecture in general is frozen music. – Friedrich von Schelling

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