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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with

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

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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of mans first attempts to order his view of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis

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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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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. – Louis Kahn

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