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“Yandex translation from Croatian to English: Nomadom was the time when the ratio of beauty began to think about how about love than between two parts, in which opposites attract only magical powers...”
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact as if it were common knowledge: the traditional design of most p...”
“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!”
“For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question ma...”
“(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises of university education and substituted in their place their complete invers...”
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays...”
“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
“The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art ...”
“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.”
“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans createbe it product, communication or systemis a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe...”
“Beautiful building, Phoebe said. Sam nodded. Classical Revival, he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. Maybe ...”
“After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.”
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.”
“Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.”
“We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us”
“You are my other self”
“Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere.”
“SEE what you think.”
“Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.”
“Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking”
