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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to ci

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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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi

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What is being called the UN gender architecture is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. – Charlotte Bunch

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. – Dr. Melba Colgrove

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