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" Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful? "

Cesar Pelli

My Life

Life

I Am

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" What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture. "

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

" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "

" Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. "

" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

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" My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. "

" I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. "

Hussein Chalayan

Creative

Parents

" When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. "

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

Mario Botta

Dream

Architecture

" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "

" The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. "

" Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. "

" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "

" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "

" In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. "

Charles Eames

Direct

Design

" At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. "

" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "

" I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. "

" 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

Architecture

People

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Architecture

Great

" Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind. "

" Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. "

" In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. "

" When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. "

" I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. "

" I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. "

" I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture. "

" Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. "