It's harder to build a good chair than to build a skyscraper.
It's better to be good than to be original.
Less is more.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
God is in the details.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed.
I believe in God, only I spell it 'Nature'.
Space is the breath of art.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die
The Game - My Life, Album: LAX
You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.
Village idiot? Hello, Chicago is a city, not a village, and the best city in the world!
Lydia Berman in Thunder Force
Looking at Chicago from outside the city in daylight is one of the most depressing sights in the world.
Neo Tribes in Cyberpunk 2077
Two-thirty, baby, won't you meet me by The Bean?
Too early, maybe later you can show me things
You know what it is, whenever I visit
Windy city, she blowin' me kisses
Too early, maybe later you can show me things
You know what it is, whenever I visit
Windy city, she blowin' me kisses
Drake - Chicago Freestyle, Album: D6
There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Ted: "Trying to get them interested in architecture as a career."
Barney: "Why? Are we running out of buildings?"
Robin: "Are we running out of boring people?"
Barney: "Why? Are we running out of buildings?"
Robin: "Are we running out of boring people?"
Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 5
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.
Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
Enid Blyton in The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus
1I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.
Taylor Swift - September 2024
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