Quote by Ben Nicholson
If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is

If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is hors doeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately youre led there. You cant escape it. – Ben Nicholson

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At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but Im not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. – Ben Nicholson

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architecture
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. Its not about stabbing each other in the back its about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. – Ben Nicholson

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Dreams
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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at its best. – Ben Nicholson

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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. – Arthur Erickson

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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I cant remember us working it out. – Art Garfunkel

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architecture

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. – Barry Mann

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architecture

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? – Bernard Levin

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architecture

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