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" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "

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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. "

" The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. "

" I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. "

" Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. "

Christian Louboutin

" The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. "

Stephen Gardiner

" The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland. "

" When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial. "

Annabelle Selldorf

" Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. "

" I am but an architectural composer. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

" The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. "

" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "

" I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture. "

" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "

Arthur Erickson

" Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "

Yoshio Taniguchi

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

" I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person. "

" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "

" I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. "

" Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. "

" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "

" There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. "

" 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. "