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" I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. "

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" When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years. "

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. "

" 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. "

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" What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? "

" What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. "

" Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. "

" 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. "

" Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. "

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" The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "

" Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "

" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "

" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "

Alexandre de Betak

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" I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture. "

Max Walker

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" I like the architecture of lingerie. "

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" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "

" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "

" 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. "

" I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. "

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" I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. "

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" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "

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" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "

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

" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "

" In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. "

" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "

" The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. "

" It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. "

" 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. "