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" I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. "

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" I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. "

Nico Tortorella

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" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "

" The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. "

" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" My architecture is the architecture of survival. "

Frei Otto

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" The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. "

" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "

" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "

" Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. "

" I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "

" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "

" I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. "

" Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes. "

" I don't believe in morality in architecture. "

" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "

Zaha Hadid

Problem

Time

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. "

" I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing. "

" Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. "

" Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. "

" Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. "

" I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. "

" The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. "

" I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. "