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" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "

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" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "

Cameron Sinclair

" Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. "

" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "

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

" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "

" My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. "

" 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. "

" If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. "

" To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. "

" 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? "

" Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. "

Robert Smithson

" Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. "

" Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. "

" I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. "

" But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. "

Stephen Sprouse

" 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. "

" I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. "

Antoine Predock

" We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

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

" I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. "

" Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. "

" I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. "

" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "

" Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. "

Michael Lomenda

" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

" What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. "

" You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. "

" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "