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" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "

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" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. "

" Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact. "

" In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland. "

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

" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "

Alexandre de Betak

" When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. "

Elizabeth Diller

" The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. "

" The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

" Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. "

" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture. "

Jonathan Anderson

" I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. "

" We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" 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. "

" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "

David Chipperfield

" Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral. "

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

" 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. "

" The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. "

Antoine Predock

" Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape. "

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

Christopher Nolan

" 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

" I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules. "

Kathryn Harrison

" Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. "