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" I don't believe in morality in architecture. "
Michael Graves
Morality
Architecture
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" A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. "
Helmut Jahn
City
Architecture
Experience
" I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. "
Walter Gropius
I Am
Ideas
Myself
" A house is a machine for living in. "
Le Corbusier
House
Living
Machine
" The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. "
Danny Rimer
Ability
Architecture
Skype
" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "
Yoshio Taniguchi
Hope
Architecture
Will
" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "
Abagail Johnson
Way
Change
Technology
" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "
Ma Yansong
Time
Culture
History
" For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. "
Bjarke Ingels
Possible
Life
End
" I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.' "
Robin Lord Taylor
Thought
Architecture
Like
" When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. "
Christian de Portzamparc
Time
Change
Change The World
" When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Free
People
Rules
" 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
" All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. "
Tadao Ando
Nature
Believe
Architecture
" About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper. "
Max Walker
Art
End
Yourself
" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "
Sufjan Stevens
Architecture
You
World
" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Politics
Say
Time
" My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. "
Julia Morgan
Legacy
Speak
Architecture
" It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? "
Helmut Jahn
Goal
Building
Architecture
" I have no requirements for a style of architecture. "
Michael Graves
Style
Requirements
Architecture
" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "
Dieter Rams
Architecture
Need
Look
" If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. "
Paul Rand
You
Die
Architecture
" Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. "
Alvar Aalto
Architecture
Culture
Civilization
" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "
Emilio Ambasz
Good
University
Architecture
" I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hope
Young
Architecture
" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "
Elizabeth Diller
Student
Architecture
Been
" Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. "
Alvar Aalto
Clearly
Architecture
Earth
" 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. "
Tadao Ando
See
History
Today
" Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected. "
David Chipperfield
Children
Believe
Architecture
" I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. "
Michael Graves
Architecture
Building
Worst
" 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. "
Greg Lynn
Beautiful
Beauty
Nature