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" All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. "

Tadao Ando

Design

Construction

Architecture

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" I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. "

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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. "

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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. "

" Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. "

" The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. "

" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "

" Each new situation requires a new architecture. "

" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "

" I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. "

" I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. "

" Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. "

" In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. "

" Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture. "

" A house is a machine for living in. "

" Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that. "

" Architecture is politics. "

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" There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London. "

" Architecture is about public space held by buildings. "

" I have no requirements for a style of architecture. "

" 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. "

" The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. "

" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "

" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "

" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "

" Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part. "