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" Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. "
Thom Mayne
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Architecture
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" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "
Steven Holl
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" Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. "
Tadao Ando
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Today
" To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. "
Daniel Libeskind
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" I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. "
Peter Zumthor
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Work
You
" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "
Constantin Brancusi
Architecture
Inhabited
Sculpture
" 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
Children
Believe
Architecture
" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "
Robert Wilson
Been
Architecture
Always
" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Nature
Trying
" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "
Antoni Gaudi
Architecture
Nature
Look
" There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space. "
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Work
Good
Live
" Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. "
Sammy Cahn
Song
Every
Architecture
" 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. "
Neri Oxman
Architecture
Tools
Struggle
" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "
James Maslow
Business
Always
Future
" We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. "
Tony Scott
Business
Process
Architecture
" Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. "
Hugo Chavez
Ethics
Architecture
World
" Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work. "
Thom Mayne
Ideas
Life
Way
" I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too. "
Luke Macfarlane
Design
Dream
Live
" So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. "
Thom Mayne
Us
Backwards
Our
" Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Culture
Nature
" 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. "
Charlie Cox
You
Live
History
" That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. "
Jim Woodring
Library
People
Place
" Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail. "
Steven Holl
End
Construction
Architecture
" I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. "
Daryl Hall
Antique
Architecture
Houses
" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Love
Art
You
" I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. "
Narciso Rodriguez
Architecture
Always
Buildings
" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "
Maya Lin
Architecture
Character
Art
" In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. "
Maya Lin
Crazy
Start
You
" There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. "
Kenzo Tange
Powerful
Need
Heart
" Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. "
Louis Kahn
Architecture
Truth
Out
" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "
Ernest Hemingway
Architecture
Clock
Style