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" Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. "
Rem Koolhaas
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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
Justin Peck
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" The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. "
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" The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. "
Saul Steinberg
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" I have no requirements for a style of architecture. "
Michael Graves
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" Architecture is about public space held by buildings. "
Richard Rogers
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" When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. "
Roman Coppola
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" There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. "
Renzo Piano
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" I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. "
Peter Eisenman
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" The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. "
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" Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected. "
David Chipperfield
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" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "
Antoine Predock
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" It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. "
John Ruskin
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" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "
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" Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. "
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" In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. "
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" Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. "
Maya Lin
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" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "
Ma Yansong
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" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "
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" I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. "
Daniel Libeskind
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New
" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "
Richard Rogers
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" But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. "
Stephen Sprouse
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" A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings. "
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" But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. "
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" Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. "
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" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "
Alexander Jackson Davis
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" I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. "
Jonathan Hickman
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" Architecture is art, nothing else. "
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" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "
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" The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. "
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