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" I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. "

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Michael Hansmeyer

" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "

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

Nancy Banks Smith

" All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. "

" In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. "

Joseph Altuzarra

" Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. "

" Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. "

" In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. "

" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "

Abigail Johnson

" I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old. "

" Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. "

" What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? "

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" 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. "

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" If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. "

Michael Mandelbaum

" In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. "

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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James P. Gorman

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