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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. "
Ben Nicholson
Architecture
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" When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. "
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" Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. "
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" In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. "
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" I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. "
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" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "
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" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "
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" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "
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" We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. "
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" The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building. "
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" To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. "
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" Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. "
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" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "
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" I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. "
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" Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. "
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" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "
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" Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality. "
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" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "
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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
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" Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. "
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