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" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

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" Less is more. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. "

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

Thomas a Kempis

" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. "

" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. "

" Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. "

" Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind. "

" 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. "

" People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. "

" The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in 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. "

" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "

" In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. "

Nancy Banks Smith

" The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. "

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

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

" To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. "

" I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. "

" The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. "

Michael Hansmeyer

" You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. "

" A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. "

" In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. "

" A house is a machine for living in. "

" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "

" I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. "

" Architecture is about public space held by buildings. "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

" I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. "