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In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its f

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit — if totally different in form — from all the romantic architecture of the past. – Dan Cruickshank

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By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know Ive paid homage to it many times in my drawings. – Jim Woodring

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

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers

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