Quote by Adolf Loos
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the futu

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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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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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos

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Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn

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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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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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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. – Stephen Gardiner

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