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" A lasting architecture has to have roots. "
I. M. Pei
Lasting
Roots
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" I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards. "
I. M. Pei
China
Journey
Got
" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "
Richard Meier
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Time
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" I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Cause
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" 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
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People
" As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts. "
Janet Echelman
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Building
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" That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. "
Jim Woodring
Library
People
Place
" I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. "
Anouska Hempel
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" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
John Ruskin
Simple
Haughty
Architecture
" The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet. "
Bjarke Ingels
Look
Architecture
End
" In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. "
Delia Ephron
Architecture
Time
You
" A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. "
David Chipperfield
Architecture
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Work
" 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
Down
Architecture
Art
" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "
Renzo Piano
London
Design
World
" Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. "
Ma Yansong
Interested
Me
Always
" To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. "
Greg Lynn
Design
Identity
Architecture
" The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples. "
Carlos Slim
Think
Beauty
Architecture
" Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality. "
Neri Oxman
Think
Reality
Nature
" I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton. "
I. M. Pei
Man
Young Man
Young
" First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. "
Gustav Stickley
Curves
Long
Open
" You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. "
Leon Krier
Need
Build
Architecture
" What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? "
Bernard Levin
War
World
Pain
" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "
Ben Nicholson
Temple
Escape
You
" I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. "
Bernard Tschumi
Regret
Never
Father
" My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. "
Ron Eglash
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More
" New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. "
Ruta Sepetys
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Music
Food
" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "
Juan Goytisolo
Now
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Arts
" Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. "
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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Great
" I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach. "
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Beach
" Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. "
Marilyn Hacker
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" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "
Robert Wilson
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