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" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

Hayden Christensen

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" 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. "

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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. "

" Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. "

" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "

" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "

" Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. "

" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "

" I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules. "

Kathryn Harrison

" 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. "

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

Antoine Predock

" I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. "

" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "

" Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. "

" We have to base architecture on the environment. "

" I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. "

" The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "

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" 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. "

" The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. "

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

" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "

" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

" Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. "

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" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "

" In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. "

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" Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. "

" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "

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