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" 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. "

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" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "

" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "

" To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. "

" 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 went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor. "

" I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. "

" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "

" There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. "

" I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. "

" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "

" I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. "

" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "

" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "

" The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. "

" I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. "

" Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. "

" I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced. "

" After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. "

" Architecture is politics. "

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" Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. "

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

" Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. "

" I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. "

" When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship. "

" If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. "

" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "

" Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. "