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" Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. "
Peter York
Design
Jewellery
Architecture
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" If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. "
Charles Jencks
Architecture
Look
Leaf
" My architecture is the architecture of survival. "
Frei Otto
Architecture
Survival
" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "
Sebastian Bach
Architecture
Beautiful
Food
" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "
Frank Gehry
Great
Architecture
Live
" Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside. "
Mario Botta
Know
Lost
You
" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "
Janet Echelman
Architecture
Art
College
" 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. "
Frank Gehry
Service
Architecture
Art
" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Nature
Trying
" One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure. "
Peter York
Over
Never
Pleasure
" It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views. "
Peter York
Contemplation
I Am
Need
" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "
Minoru Yamasaki
Think
Thought
Influence
" I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. "
James Polshek
Architecture
Think
Me
" The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. "
Bill Gates
Mean
You
Architecture
" Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. "
Tadao Ando
Architecture
Spiritual
Culture
" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "
Peter Zumthor
Like
Architecture
Work
" Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. "
Bob Barr
Architecture
Beautiful
Good
" There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. "
Renzo Piano
Energy
Architecture
Giving
" Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. "
Maya Lin
Buildings
Build
Artist
" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "
Lee Radziwill
Color
Been
Art
" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "
Zaha Hadid
Like
Problem
Time
" 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. "
Peter Zumthor
Simple
Architecture
Mountains
" When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay. "
Joanna Going
Loved
School
Architecture
" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "
John Rocha
Fashion
Architecture
Interested
" I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hope
Young
Architecture
" Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. "
Joshua Prince-Ramus
Genius
Architecture
Great
" Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way. "
Peter York
Doing
Bridges
Way
" The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. "
Alvar Aalto
People
House
Goal
" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Politics
Say
Time
" I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. "
Bjarke Ingels
Architecture
Life
Think
" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "
Constantin Brancusi
Architecture
Inhabited
Sculpture