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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "

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" The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. "

Christopher Nolan

" The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change. "

" For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. "

" Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. "

" My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. "

" 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

" The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. "

Bernard Tschumi

" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "

" I have no requirements for a style of architecture. "

" I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. "

" There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. "

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

" 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. "

" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "

" There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. "

James Henry Breasted

" Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. "

" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "

Milton Friedman

" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "

" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "

" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "

" Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. "

" I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. "

" Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

" 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. "

" As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. "

" In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services. "

" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "

" The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. "

" People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. "

" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "