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" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "
Zaha Hadid
Calm
You
Think
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" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "
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" 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. "
Ross Lovegrove
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" If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that. "
Cass Sunstein
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" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" 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. "
Peter Zumthor
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You
" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "
Cameron Sinclair
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" My friendships are very important to me. "
Zaha Hadid
Friendships
Very
Me
" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
John Ruskin
Simple
Haughty
Architecture
" In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources. "
Magnus Larsson
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Communication
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" Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Interesting
Think
Good
" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "
David Allan Coe
Construction
Architecture
Beauty
" After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. "
Harry Seidler
War
Technology
Great
" I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. "
Jools Holland
Think
Music
Live
" As a woman, you're not accessible to every world. "
Zaha Hadid
Every
You
World
" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "
Philip Johnson
Talking
You
Feel
" I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. "
David Harewood
Architecture
Culture
History
" I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' "
Zaha Hadid
Go
Office
Say
" 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. "
Rem Koolhaas
Green
Now
Sustainability
" Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. "
Henry Paulson
Financial
Never
Architecture
" Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. "
Jay Griffiths
Architecture
Society
Science
" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "
Zaha Hadid
Think
Thought
Design
" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "
Arne Jacobsen
Architecture
Then
Building
" My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. "
Julia Morgan
Legacy
Speak
Architecture
" 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
" If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. "
Charles Jencks
Architecture
Look
Leaf
" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture
Comfort
Sense
" People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. "
Marc Newson
You
Train
Architecture
" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "
Elizabeth Diller
Architecture
Still
Standing
" Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. "
Audre Lorde
Change
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Future
" I see music as fluid architecture. "
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