A Quote by Jimenez Lai
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.
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When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
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Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.
