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" Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. "
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Art
Architecture
Long
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" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "
Philip Johnson
How
Architecture
Art
" For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. "
Michael Graves
Architecture
Live
Myself
" To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art. "
John Lautner
Architecture
Dead
Art
" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Sand
Time
Size
" Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. "
Richard Rogers
Little
Architecture
Know
" Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Culture
Nature
" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "
Ian Mckellen
Friend
Life
You
" Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. "
Moshe Safdie
Some
Architecture
Faster
" Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. "
Elizabeth Diller
Architecture
Work
People
" I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. "
Kelly Wearstler
Architecture
Which
Furniture
" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "
Juan Goytisolo
Now
Situation
Arts
" 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. "
Zaha Hadid
Think
Thought
Design
" I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. "
Michael Graves
Architecture
Truth
Music
" We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. "
Rob Pike
Problems
Think
Believe
" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "
Cameron Sinclair
Incredible
Architecture
Internet
" 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
Architecture
Art
Quality
" What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture. "
Ma Yansong
Try
Architecture
Mountain
" Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. "
Martin Filler
Short-Lived
Architecture
Profession
" Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations. "
Jack Dangermond
Architecture
World
Done
" 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. "
Greg Lynn
Design
Identity
Architecture
" 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. "
Moby
Yourself
Looking
Place
" Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. "
Alvar Aalto
Art
Life
Hat
" It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Light
Drawing
Architecture
" Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind. "
Pranav Mistry
Mind
Architecture
Technology
" 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
" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "
Renzo Piano
Father
Family
Building
" 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
" When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. "
Cesar Pelli
Love
Architecture
Had
" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "
Zaha Hadid
Space
You
Place
" Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. "
Elizabeth Diller
Politics
Technology
Architecture