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" Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. "

Elizabeth Diller

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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. "

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" Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. "

" If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. "

" Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. "

" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "

" My architecture is the architecture of survival. "

" My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. "

Donald Barthelme

" If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. "

" The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. "

" When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. "

" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

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

David Chipperfield

" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "

" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. "

" Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. "

Christian de Portzamparc

" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "

Winston Churchill

" All real education is the architecture of the soul. "

William Bennett

" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "

" 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. "

" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "

" 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. "

" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "

" When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical. "

" Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. "

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

" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "

" The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. "