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

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" The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources. "

" The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. "

David Chipperfield

" I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. "

" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. "

" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "

" I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture. "

Lidia Bastianich

" Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

" Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. "

" Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. "

" The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples. "

" Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression. "

Leonard Mlodinow

" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "

Daniel Libeskind

" There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space. "

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "

" That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. "

" The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. "

" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "

Charlotte Bunch

" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "

Henry David Thoreau

" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "

" We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body. "

Elizabeth Diller

" Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. "

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

" We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. "

Christian de Portzamparc

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. "

" If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. "

" Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. "