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" 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. "

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" The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. "

Claire Tomalin

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" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

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" The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. "

" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "

" Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. "

" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "

" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

Frank Gehry

Places

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" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "

" 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. "

" Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. "

" I like the architecture of lingerie. "

Colleen Atwood

Lingerie

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" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "

" First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. "

" As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. "

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" There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London. "

" When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical. "

" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "

" Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. "

" A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. "

" Architecture is politics. "

Mitchell Kapor

Politics

Architecture

" I love the Queen. I've had a crush on her since I was eight. "

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

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

" I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. "

" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "

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Drawing

" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "

" Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. "