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" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "

Arthur Erickson

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" 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. "

" The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex. "

" I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. "

" I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture. "

Lidia Bastianich

" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "

" Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant. "

" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "

Daniel Libeskind

" The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer. "

Denis Villeneuve

" Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. "

" 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. "

" Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression. "

Leonard Mlodinow

" Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. "

" The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. "

Michael Hansmeyer

" Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. "

" Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. "

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

Michael Lomenda

" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "

" I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. "

David Chipperfield

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. "

" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "

" Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. "

" Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. "

" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

" As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. "

" I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. "

" It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. "

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