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" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "
Alvar Aalto
Me
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Drawing
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" I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. "
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" To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting. "
Ruth Bernhard
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" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "
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" For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. "
Mario Botta
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" In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. "
Edwin Lutyens
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" Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "
Samuel Butler
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" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "
Luis Barragan
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" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "
James Maslow
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" The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. "
Michael Graves
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" In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland. "
Mario Botta
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Foundation
" I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. "
Neri Oxman
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" Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. "
Alan Huffman
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Up
Students
" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "
Minoru Yamasaki
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Thought
Influence
" 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
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Work
Kind
" The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. "
Bill Gates
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You
Architecture
" I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. "
Glenn Ligon
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" '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. "
Doug Aitken
Language
Culture
Architecture
" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "
Frank Gehry
More
Places
Chicago
" Architecture is invention. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture
Invention
" 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
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Believe
" Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. "
Hugo Chavez
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Architecture
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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
Frank Gehry
Dull
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Want
" Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' "
Martin Filler
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" Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. "
Leon Krier
Always
Better
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" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "
James P. Gorman
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Rules
Same
" 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. "
Frei Otto
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Architecture
Think
" I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. "
Bjarke Ingels
Architecture
Life
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" Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. "
Vitruvius
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Learning
" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "
Jake Barton
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" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "
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