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Architecture

A spaceship is a delicately balanced environment. Every element that doesn't contribute to the overall functioning of the system is by definition working against it. The same is true of our planet - our mothership - though, sadly, most architecture today is slowly fatal to nature's systems.

Constance Adams

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Constantin Brancusi

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Michael Graves

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