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" Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. "

Elizabeth Diller

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" My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. "

" 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. "

" I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. "

" 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

" Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. "

Elizabeth Diller

" My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. "

" My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. "

Taylor Schilling

" Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. "

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

" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

" My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. "

" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "

" Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. "

" Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. "

" If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. "

" Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "

" Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "

Charlotte Bunch

" There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect. "

" The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. "

" We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. "

Christian de Portzamparc

" Architecture is definitely a political act. "

" I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. "

" Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture. "

Thomas Heatherwick

" There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life. "

" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "

" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "

Frank Lloyd Wright