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" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "
Christian Dior
Body
Architecture
Female
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" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "
Peter Marino
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" Architecture is always political. "
Richard Rogers
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Always
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" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "
Richard Rogers
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" Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
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" The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. "
George Lucas
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" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "
Martha Graham
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" My architecture is the architecture of survival. "
Frei Otto
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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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Love
" I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. "
Charles Jencks
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Art
" From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music. "
Christian Dior
Music
First
Back
" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "
Antoine Predock
Architecture
Think
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" I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. "
Joseph Kosinski
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New York
School
" I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff. "
Peter Falk
Great
Love
Best
" My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. "
Ben van Berkel
Time
Architecture
Live
" Architecture is about public space held by buildings. "
Richard Rogers
Buildings
Space
Public
" Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety. "
Hisham Matar
Architecture
Responsibility
Fire
" I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. "
William Devane
Me
Architecture
People
" Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. "
Thom Mayne
Work
World
Time
" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "
Philip Johnson
Space
Architecture
Design
" An important work of architecture will create polemics. "
Richard Meier
Create
Architecture
Important
" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "
Kevin McCloud
Pretty
Sexiest
Doing
" I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. "
Barry Mann
Studying
Architecture
College
" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "
Renzo Piano
Criticism
You
Harmony
" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "
James P. Gorman
Architecture
Rules
Same
" Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. "
Rafael Vinoly
Music
Thinking
Fall
" I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. "
David Chipperfield
Age
Build
Our
" The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. "
Jay Chiat
Architecture
Work
Team
" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "
Walter Gropius
Future
Architecture
Together
" We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body. "
Elizabeth Diller
Living
Building
Body