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" Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. "
Bryant H. McGill
Architecture
Master
Grandeur
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" The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. "
Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture
You
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" As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. "
Harry von Zell
Space
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" Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. "
Sara Sheridan
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Myself
World
" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "
Rem Koolhaas
Culture
Architecture
Years
" Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. "
Alvar Aalto
Ideas
Time
World
" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "
Antoni Gaudi
Architecture
Nature
Look
" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "
Emilio Ambasz
Good
University
Architecture
" Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes. "
Hubert de Givenchy
Great
Intelligence
You
" I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. "
Antony Gormley
Great
Architecture
Time
" The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. "
Bernard Tschumi
Architecture
Limits
Ultimate
" Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. "
Nate Lowman
Discourse
Body
Fashion
" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "
Helmut Jahn
Attitude
American
Always
" Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. "
Kenzo Tange
Great
Society
Architecture
" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "
John Updike
Bricks
Architecture
Consciousness
" I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules. "
Kathryn Harrison
Child
Her
Mother
" My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. "
Frei Otto
Architecture
New
Light
" In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. "
Arne Jacobsen
Sometimes
Task
Architecture
" There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life. "
Nathaniel Kahn
Life
Architecture
Good
" I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Environment
Stage
" 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
Creative
New York
School
" The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. "
Vince Vaughn
Love
City
Great
" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "
Neil Denari
More
Cinema
Interesting
" My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. "
Parker Stevenson
Always
Photography
Most
" 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. "
Jay Griffiths
Architecture
Society
Science
" Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. "
Louis Kahn
Mind
Past
College
" 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. "
Jude Deveraux
House
Drawing
Art
" I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. "
Alex Winter
Music
Lot
Architecture
" Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. "
Christian Louboutin
Music
Architecture
Poetry
" Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. "
Bryant H. McGill
Control
Knowledge
Enemy