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" Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. "

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

" 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. "

" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "

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" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "

Arthur Erickson

" 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. "

" The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. "

" Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety. "

" Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. "

Annabelle Selldorf

" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "

" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "

Antoine Predock

" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. "

" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "

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" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

" I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it. "

" I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. "

" In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. "

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

" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "

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" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "

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" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture. "

Charles Dallara

" Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. "

" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "

" 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. "