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The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονική, architektoniki) can be used to mean a process, a profession or documentation. As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures by a person or a machine, primarily to provide socially purposeful shelter. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding man made landscape (see town... full article at wikipedia

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San Francisco Ferry Building	National Register of Historic Places	1978	Engineering Transportation
Conservatory of Flowers	National Register of Historic Places	1971	Engineering
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.	Henry David Thoreau
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.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.	Seneca the Younger
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.	Frank Lloyd Wright
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.	G. K. Chesterton
Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.	E. B. White
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.	G. K. Chesterton
Don't fight forces, use them.	Buckminster Fuller
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.	Friedrich Nietzsche
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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