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" 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. "
Bjarke Ingels
Architecture
Life
Think
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" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "
Ma Yansong
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" The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. "
D. B. Weiss
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" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "
Daniel Libeskind
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" Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. "
Sara Sheridan
Book
Myself
World
" When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years. "
Peter Levine
You
Think
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" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "
Steven Holl
Architecture
Intense
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" Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. "
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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Architecture
Great
" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "
Emilio Ambasz
Good
University
Architecture
" Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. "
Louis Kahn
Architecture
Struck
Between
" The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. "
Simon Schama
Bible
History
Nature
" I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff. "
Peter Falk
Great
Love
Best
" I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. "
Charles Jencks
Down
Architecture
Art
" There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. "
Kenzo Tange
Powerful
Need
Heart
" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "
Frank Gehry
Architecture
City
Believe
" I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins. "
Bjarke Ingels
Idea
Always
Job
" The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response. "
Ma Yansong
Work
Time
Long
" The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. "
Mukesh Ambani
Growth
Lose
Organization
" Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. "
Arne Jacobsen
Beauty
Old
Architecture
" Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it. "
Hisham Matar
Studying
Passion
Great
" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "
Helmut Jahn
Attitude
American
Always
" If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. "
Peter Zumthor
Simple
Architecture
Mountains
" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
Ayn Rand
Architecture
Integrity
Man
" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "
Arne Jacobsen
Architecture
Then
Building
" Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. "
Tadao Ando
Man
Experience
Architecture
" The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. "
Michael Graves
Long
Truth
Architecture
" Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. "
Magnus Larsson
Sand
Way
Architecture
" I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks. "
Peter Marino
Want
Intellectual
Love
" Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand. "
Mario Botta
Clear
Simple
Architecture
" Architecture is art, nothing else. "
Philip Johnson
Else
Nothing
Art
" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "
Rick Perlstein
Progress
Business
Architecture