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

Hubert de Givenchy

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" In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. "

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" You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. "

" My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. "

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

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" I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with. "

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" Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. "

" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "

" I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. "

" Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. "

" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "

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" I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. "

" I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. "

" Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "

" In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. "

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" 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. "

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" There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. "

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" You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting. "

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" But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. "

" When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. "

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

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