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" Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. "

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" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "

Winston Churchill

" Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. "

" 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. "

" I have no requirements for a style of architecture. "

" As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. "

" I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. "

" 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. "

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

" In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. "

" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "

" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "

Ernest Hemingway

" A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. "

Guillaume Apollinaire

" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "

" The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. "

David Chipperfield

" My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. "

Donald Barthelme

" Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it. "

" Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. "

" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "

" The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. "

" Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. "

" There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space. "

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "

" Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. "

" In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. "

Elizabeth Diller

" I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. "

Philip Warren Anderson

" I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. "

" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "

" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "

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