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" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. "

" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

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" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. "

" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "

" Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. "

" The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. "

" 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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" 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. "

Anika Noni Rose

" 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

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. "

" I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. "

" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "

Stephen Gardiner

" Half a truth is better than no politics. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. "

" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "

David Chipperfield

" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "

" Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. "

" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "

" The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. "

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

Antoine Predock

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

" My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. "

" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "