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" 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
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" The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. "
D. B. Weiss
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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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" I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. "
Ron Eglash
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" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "
Oksana Baiul
Beach
Water
Vacation
" Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. "
Bayard Taylor
Flowers
Architecture
Grace
" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "
Ma Yansong
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Nature
Trying
" A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. "
Guillaume Apollinaire
Longer
Nature
Structure
" For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. "
Michael Graves
Architecture
Live
Myself
" The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. "
Christopher Nolan
Filmmaking
Only
Me
" We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. "
Elizabeth Diller
Architecture
Work
Kind
" If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. "
Paul Rand
You
Die
Architecture
" The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. "
Federico Garcia Lorca
Architecture
Human
Rhythm
" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "
Sufjan Stevens
Architecture
You
World
" I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things. "
Stephen Sprouse
Think
Fashion
Music
" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "
Alan Bennett
Achievement
Love
Why
" 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
" Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. "
Leon Krier
Always
Better
Architecture
" I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. "
Tadao Ando
Inspire
Architecture
Future
" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "
Emilio Ambasz
Good
University
Architecture
" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "
Antoine Predock
Architecture
Ride
Intellectual
" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "
Hugh Hardy
Emotion
Architecture
Human
" Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. "
Rem Koolhaas
More
Much
Architecture
" The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. "
Simon Schama
Bible
History
Nature
" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
Ayn Rand
Architecture
Integrity
Man
" To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses. "
Mario Botta
Architecture
Me
Small
" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "
Jake Barton
Architecture
Moving
People
" I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. "
Imogen Poots
Architecture
New
Find
" The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities. "
Ma Yansong
Free
Opportunities
You
" The future of architecture is culture. "
Philip Johnson
Culture
Architecture
Future
" Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. "
Richard Rogers
Architecture
Living
Future