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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. (Cortes Hernando)
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. (Cortes Hernando)
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky. (Cortes Hernando)
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. (Cortes Hernando)
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past. (Cortes Hernando)
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. (Cortes Hernando)
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. (Cortes Hernando)
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. (Cortes Hernando)
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. (Cortes Hernando)
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. (Cortes Hernando)
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. (Cortes Hernando)
All architects want to live beyond their deaths. (Cortes Hernando)
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. (Cortes Hernando)
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. (Cortes Hernando)
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. (Cortes Hernando)
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power. (Cortes Hernando)
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. (Cortes Hernando)
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! (Cortes Hernando)
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. (Cortes Hernando)
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. (Cortes Hernando)
When we build, let us think that we build for ever. (Cortes Hernando)
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