Architecture in general is frozen music.
Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.
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The mood which emanates from architecture comes close to the effect of music.
Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
I call architecture frozen music.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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