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" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "
Ma Yansong
Time
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History
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" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "
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" Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. "
Rem Koolhaas
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" The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. "
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" 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. "
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" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
Ayn Rand
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" When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. "
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" Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. "
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" Historically, sci-fi movies have played an important role in inspiring young people. "
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" Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. "
John Portman
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" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "
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" I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. "
Sharon Horgan
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" I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. "
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" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. "
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" 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. "
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" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "
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" The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer. "
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" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "
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" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "
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" I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. "
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" I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. "
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" 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. "
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" Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. "
Elizabeth Diller
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