Landscape Architecture Quotes

• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

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  Candice Millard

  Self   Ideas   Landscape Architecture  

  884

• I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

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  Lebbeus Woods

  Ideas   Earth   Landscape  

  2793

• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

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  Luis Barragan

  Gardening   Landscape   Architecture  

  2927

• I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

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  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking   Squares   Virginia  

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.288, Univ of California Press

  4782

• I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

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  Lebbeus Woods

  Ideas   Landscape   Looks  

  3432

• The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

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  Tom Turner

  Mean   Garden   Cities  

  1783

• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty   Badass   Mistake  

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

  3887

• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother   Art   Civilization  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  1996

• Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design.

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  Richard Moe

  Cities   America   Design  

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