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Architecture
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek 峒€蟻蠂喂蟿苇魏蟿蠅谓 鈥� arkhitekton, from 峒€蟻蠂喂- "chief" and 蟿苇魏蟿蠅谓 "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing, and construction, usually of buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on.
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― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
![[Flip through] SKETCHBOOK 鈩�12: A series of architecture illustrations](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tL3A_2wBbqE/default.jpg)
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