Bruno Zevi Quotes

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Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

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Architecture... is like a great hollowed-out sculpture which man enters and apprehends by moving about within it.

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Decorating, sculpture and painting enter into the grammar of architecture in their proper places as adjectives, not as substantives.

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Les yeux qui ne voient pas, the eyes which do not see the beauty of Purist forms are eyes that today do not see and do not understand the lessons of traditional architecture.

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To look at architecture with any system and intelligence one must already have a lively interest in the subject and be provided with a good deal of good will.

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Architecture... does not consist in the sum of the width, length and height of the structural elements which enclose space, but in the void itself, the enclosed space in which man lives and moves.

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Architecture is not art alone, it is not merely a reflection of conceptions of life or a portrait of systems of living. Architecture is environment, the stage on which our lives unfold.

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The most incredible thing is to find archaeologists dedicating their lives to the structural features of monuments who depreciate any critical contribution and exult over the discovery of the slightest technical detail, and who, at the same time, are reactionaries with respect to modern architecture.

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Professional architects, who, in order to explore the problems of contemporary architecture, must necessarily have a profound passion for architecture in the living sense of the word, are largely lacking today in the specific cultural background which would qualify them for a knowledgeable entry into the arena of historical and critical debate.

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A satisfactory history of architecture has not yet been written, because we are still not accustomed to thinking in terms of space, and because historians of architecture have failed to apply a coherent method of studying buildings from a spatial point of view.

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