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" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "

Daniel Libeskind

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" I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. "

" Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. "

Michael Lomenda

" I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. "

" When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. "

Christian de Portzamparc

Change The World

" I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. "

David Chipperfield

" Architecture is definitely a political act. "

" I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. "

Preston Sturges

" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "

Marcus Brigstocke

" Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. "

Joseph Kosinski

" 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. "

" What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. "

" The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. "

Iain McGilchrist

" The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities. "

" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. "

Taylor Schilling

" Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. "

" I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. "

" Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "

" Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. "

" Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful? "

" We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" 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. "

" To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. "

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

" Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. "

" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "

Stephen Gardiner

" I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. "

Daniel Libeskind

" If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. "