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" Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. "

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Art Garfunkel

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" Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. "

" Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. "

" 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 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

Art

" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "

" Form follows function. "

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

" The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. "

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

" Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. "

" Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements. "

" To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. "

" I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. "

" Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. "

" Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. "

" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "

" There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. "

" I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. "

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

Neil Denari

Cinema

Interesting

" I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. "

" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "

" But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. "

Stephen Sprouse

School

Time

" Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. "

" Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. "

" 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

Meaning

Better

Beauty

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

" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "