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“If function is the driving force of form, then a successful work of architecture is closer to an organ than to a machine.”
- Sarah Robinson

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January 22, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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“Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high. The world…is filled with junior high adolescent pettiness, pubescent rivalries, the insecurities of 13-year-olds, and the false bravado of 14-year-olds.”
- Tom Brokaw

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January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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“When you see a concrete wall, it’s very rigid and has no flexibility. Whereas when you’re building with dry stone, it’s like weaving a rope. It can move and shift as the ground freezes and thaws.”
- Daniel Peterson

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August 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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“The mind is inherently embodied, though is mostly unconscious, and abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”

- George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

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August 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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“architecture must be confronted as being more than building design or buildings. It must be explored as having to do with relationships, including urbanism, of course, but moving beyond what one calls culture in general.”

- Jeffery Kipins &Thomas Lesser

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July 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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“A...difference exists between the wall...and the furnishing...because they are two different languages….The architect remains true to his calling as long as he gives maximum voice to these differences and lets them appear in full.”
- Massimo Cacciari
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July 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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“A good soldier doesn’t hate what is in front of them, they love what is behind them.”
- G.K. Chesterton

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July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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“If it’s a good idea, it can be realized at multiple price points.”

- Marlon Blackwell

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July 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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“What we need most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life - integrity...if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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July 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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“As the settings of our lives are losing their human meaning, it is the task of art and architecture to re-mythicize, re-sensualize and re-eroticize our relationship with the world.”

- Juhani Pallasmaa

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July 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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“...when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but you must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole....”

- Christopher Alexander

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July 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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“Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough-that we should try again. No. We should not.”
- Julia Cameron

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July 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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“Architecture, material in its very nature, literally touches us daily. It is a discipline that bridges technics and art, the individual and his or her environment.”

- Sarah Robinson

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July 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

- Gustave Flaubert

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June 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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“What seems to characterize a creative person…it is a relative absence of repression or suppression as a mechanism for the control of impulse and imagery.”
- Loren Eisley

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June 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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“The aim of the Werkbund is to make things, not in the style of our times but that will last forever. That is bad.”

- Adolf Loos

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June 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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“The purpose of evolution, believe it or not, is beauty.”
- Joseph Brodsky

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May 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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“It is arrogant to pretend that our architecture is timeless...Perhaps we should seek a perennial architecture, one that is renewed by the seasons and the cycles of life and refreshed in the enactment of human ritual.”
- Sarah Robinson

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May 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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“Vision separates us from the world, whereas the other senses unite us with it.”

- Juhani Pallasmaa

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May 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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“Whoever wishes to know what the situation of a ‘redeemed humanity’ might actually be, [the] conditions...and when this development can...occur, poses questions to which there are no answers.”
- Walter Benjamin

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May 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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“The most important thing is to make long lasting architecture. Buildings should remain in a community for 100 or 200 years….”
- Riken Yamamoto

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April 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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“It’s a dangerous moment when the government of a country doesn’t condemn crimes against humanity.”
- Mayki Gorosito

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April 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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“Art is made by the alone for the alone.”
- Cyril Connolly

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April 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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“As hearing-dominance has yielded to site-dominance, situational thinking has been replaced by abstract thinking.”
- Walter J. Ong

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April 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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“The master of nature (so the imperialist teach) is the purpose of all technology. [but] technology is mastery not of nature but of the relation between nature and man.”

- Walter Benjamin

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April 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM