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Architecture is invention. - Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is invention. – Oscar Niemeyer

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There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. – Oscar Niemeyer

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design
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Oscar Niemeyer
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Dreams
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. – Oscar Niemeyer

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architecture
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. – Le Corbusier

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architecture

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. – James H. Breasted

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architecture

Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. – John Howe

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architecture

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. – Stephen Gardiner

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architecture

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