But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
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All quotes →What the people are within, the buildings express without.
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Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.
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The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.
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It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
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