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" Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. "
Antoni Gaudi
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" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
Ayn Rand
Architecture
Integrity
Man
" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "
Frank Gehry
Architecture
City
Believe
" Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. "
Trevor Paglen
Live
Architecture
Art
" 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
Age
Build
Our
" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "
James Polshek
Boy
Architecture
Bad
" The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Eye
Secret
" There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. "
Norman Foster
Art
Science
Work
" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "
Patrick Cox
Architecture
Shoe
Suits
" I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. "
Charlie Rose
Film
Politics
Thought
" In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
You
Look
" I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. "
Sharon Horgan
Architecture
Love
Beautiful
" Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. "
Magnus Larsson
Sand
Way
Architecture
" 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. "
Thom Mayne
Change
Political
People
" I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. "
Jason Silva
Building
Know
Architecture
" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "
Alexandre de Betak
Time
Am
Architecture
" 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
" Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. "
Amanda Hearst
Building
Rome
Museum
" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "
Antoine Predock
Architecture
Ride
Intellectual
" 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
" I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Cause
Art
Surprise
" I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. "
Doug TenNapel
Life
Purpose
Believe
" And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. "
Arne Jacobsen
Deep
Architecture
House
" 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
" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "
Roger Waters
Happy
Architecture
Game
" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "
Jeff Fortenberry
Care
Health
New
" When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. "
Ron Eglash
Never
Architecture
Africa
" To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. "
I. M. Pei
Me
Architecture
Free
" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "
Kenzo Tange
Mission
Special
Planning
" Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "
Thom Mayne
Architecture
Art
Political
" Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' "
Antoine Predock
Experience
Together
Space