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Old Posted Mar 26, 2012, 7:21 AM
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Favorite architectural quotations/references

Whether buildings can actually quote or not other buildings (like a text would do) isn't really the question here. I think we can all agree that references to other projects, styles or architects are a pretty common thing, even when they're not quite acknowledged by the architect himself. It was actually (to me atleast) one of the few bright spots of postmodern architecture.

So anyway, let's see what we can come up with! I'll start with a couple of easy ones.

Philip Johnson - Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston (1985)

[url]http://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, House of Education (project), 1773-1779

http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/laserdisk/0244/24452.JPG

James Stirling, Engineering Building - Leicester University, 1959

http://quintinlake.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/leicester-engineering-building-james-stirling-17.jpg?w=500&h=766

Konstantin Melnikov, Rusakov Club, 1927-29

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qukqnTo2uYc/TgYJj2etSZI/AAAAAAAAI_k/K91nP_je198/s1600/konstantin-melnikov-klub-rusalkovovd18dch-zd0b1vodov-1928.jpg
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