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" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "
Richard Rogers
Architecture
Business
Planning
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" The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. "
Peter Eisenman
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Less
" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "
Charlotte Bunch
Equality
Women
Architecture
" It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Never
Age
Through
" Architecture is art, nothing else. "
Philip Johnson
Else
Nothing
Art
" To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. "
Greg Lynn
Design
Identity
Architecture
" Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. "
Peter Zumthor
Architecture
Care
Me
" If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. "
Michael Mandelbaum
Creativity
Sports
Music
" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "
Arne Jacobsen
Architecture
Then
Building
" The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. "
Christopher Nolan
Filmmaking
Only
Me
" When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. "
Ma Yansong
World
Architecture
Thought
" 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
" Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. "
David Chipperfield
You
Architecture
Bargain
" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "
Walter Gropius
Future
Architecture
Together
" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "
Lee Radziwill
Color
Been
Art
" 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
Book
Myself
World
" You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. "
Nate Berkus
You
Need
Money
" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "
Rick Perlstein
Progress
Business
Architecture
" The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "
Robert Wilson
You
Architecture
Know
" The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building. "
Mario Botta
Architecture
Building
History
" 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. "
Tadao Ando
Spirit
Logic
Exist
" I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down. "
Richard Rogers
Pretty
Top
Think
" 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. "
Michael Hansmeyer
Architecture
Reality
Vision
" I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. "
S. J. Rozan
Why
Work
Architecture
" Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Interesting
Think
Good
" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "
Peter Zumthor
Quality
Need
Good
" 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
" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
Justin Peck
City
Architecture
Love
" 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. "
Sydney Pollack
Light
People
Time
" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "
David Allan Coe
Construction
Architecture
Beauty
" I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. "
Anouska Hempel
Architecture
Be Strong
Strong