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• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture – even the local superstitions. It’s a sensory experience on all levels and there’s a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

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• Architecture in general is frozen music.

  Friedrich von Schelling

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• Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

  Richard Rogers

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• Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

  Richard Rogers

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• Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

  Richard Rogers

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• Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

  Bruce Jackson

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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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• Architecture theory is very interesting.

  David Byrne

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• I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

  Brad Pitt

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• But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it’s fantastic.

  Paul Bettany

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• 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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• If you’re into architecture and you’re from the West, everything is hors d’oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you’re led there. You can’t escape it.

  Ben Nicholson

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

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• I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

  Sydney Pollack

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• French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

  Stephen Gardiner

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• The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

  Stephen Gardiner

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• Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

  Stephen Gardiner

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• Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

  Stephen Gardiner

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• The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

  Stephen Gardiner

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• The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

  Stephen Gardiner

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