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" A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. "

Antoine Predock

Responsibility

Great

Animal

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" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Clouds

" I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. "

" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

" For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. "

Mario Botta

Dream

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" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. "

" What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. "

" For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. "

James Rouse

Purpose

Improvement

" If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. "

" At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. "

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

" Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. "

" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "

" The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. "

" The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. "

" My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me. "

Antoine Predock

Sun

Attention

" Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. "

" I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' "

" 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. "

" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

Architecture

Future

Victims

" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Two

Together

Architecture

" Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. "

" In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. "

" The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. "

" I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. "

" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "

" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "

" Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. "