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" Architecture is politics. "
Mitchell Kapor
Politics
Architecture
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" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "
Stephen Gardiner
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People
Architecture
" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "
Ernest Hemingway
Architecture
Clock
Style
" I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. "
Jean Nouvel
Play
Architecture
Game
" I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. "
Barry Mann
Studying
Architecture
College
" A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. "
Guillaume Apollinaire
Longer
Nature
Structure
" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "
Francois Nars
More
Architecture
End
" 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
Architecture
Quality
Interesting
" But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. "
Paul Bettany
Architecture
You
Think
" As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. "
Zaha Hadid
Woman
Architecture
Myself
" Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape. "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Think
Space
" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "
Antoine Predock
Architecture
Think
Technology
" The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. "
Claire Tomalin
City
Rich
Love
" I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. "
David Chipperfield
Me
Architecture
Art
" When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. "
Christian de Portzamparc
Time
Change
Change The World
" I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. "
Philip Warren Anderson
Architecture
Play
Game
" Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Success
Aging
Architecture
" What people want, above all, is order. "
Stephen Gardiner
Order
Want
People
" In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. "
Pierre Nanterme
Life
Focus
Innovation
" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Slow
Structure
Architecture
" 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
" When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. "
Ma Yansong
Science
Thought
School
" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "
Zaha Hadid
City
Love
Miami
" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "
Ma Yansong
Time
Culture
History
" Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. "
Frank Stella
Architecture
Chaos
Personality
" I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. "
Jonathan Hickman
College
Architecture
Art
" My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. "
Ben van Berkel
Time
Architecture
Live
" Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. "
Brian Grazer
Mind
Beautiful
People
" We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. "
John Ruskin
Architecture
Buildings
Goodness
" There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. "
Edwin Lutyens
Never
Great
Will
" Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' "
Martin Filler
Architecture
Me
Design