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" Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. "

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" The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. "

" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "

" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "

Antoine Predock

" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "

" Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. "

" I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. "

" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. "

" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. "

" I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. "

" Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. "

" Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

" I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. "

" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "

Henry David Thoreau

" I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. "

" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "

" 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

" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "

" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "

" I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater. "

" Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. "

" The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. "

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

William Bennett

" Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "

" What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. "

" Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. "

" My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. "

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

Robert Smithson

" In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. "