architect referring to God by Antoni Gaudí

"My client is not in a hurry," Antoni Gaudí, said the pious architect referring to God.

The December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine by Jeremy Berlin examines the architecture and nature-inspired design behind Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, including why it remains a work in progress and very much ahead of its time.

When Pope Benedict XVI said Mass there this fall, the Sagrada Família was already 128 years in the making—and still not finished.

Future Architecture Concept

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Rem Koolhaas

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Lumhor on architecture in Cambodia

Masterpiece architecture : Unique Building

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Masterpiece architecture :Art

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you

Tadao Ando

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[Image] A menorah commissioned by the Jewish Museum commemorating 4,000 years of Jewish history by Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier

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