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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

— Arne Jacobsen

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

— Thom Mayne

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

— I. M. Pei

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

— Adolf Loos

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

— Charles Eames

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

— Arne Jacobsen

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

— Helmut Jahn