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" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "
Neri Oxman
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" But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. "
Thom Mayne
Architecture
Communication
Change
" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "
Peter Zumthor
Like
Architecture
Work
" 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
Purpose
Drawing
" Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be. "
Sara Bareilles
Architecture
City
Small
" The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. "
Nick Clegg
Politics
Architecture
You
" Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that. "
Issey Miyake
Architecture
Beyond
Clothing
" 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
Me
World
Freedom
" If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print. "
Neri Oxman
Everyone
You
Time
" I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. "
Thom Mayne
World
Impossible
Architecture
" I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. "
Parker Stevenson
College
Architecture
School
" The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. "
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Book
Mad
Trust
" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "
Sydney Pollack
Space
You
Time
" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "
Daniel Libeskind
Greatest
Cities
Architecture
" The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. "
John Irving
Building
Never
Architecture
" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "
Kevin McCloud
Pretty
Sexiest
Doing
" The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. "
Michael Graves
Long
Truth
Architecture
" I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. "
Alex Winter
Music
Lot
Architecture
" The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. "
Robert Pinsky
Look
Style
Poetry
" 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. "
John Lautner
Architecture
Dead
Art
" Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. "
Martin Filler
Architecture
Within
Quality
" You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. "
Walter Russell Mead
You
Architecture
Car
" The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. "
I. M. Pei
Space
Architecture
Light
" Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail. "
Steven Holl
End
Construction
Architecture
" Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics. "
Neri Oxman
Revolution
Environmental
Knowledge
" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "
Jeff Fortenberry
Care
Health
New
" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "
Alexandre de Betak
Time
Am
Architecture
" The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. "
Doug Aitken
Art
Literature
Up
" The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. "
Mark Frost
Architecture
More
Time
" 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
" Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside. "
Mario Botta
Know
Lost
You