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" I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. "
Frances Mayes
Food
Art
Architecture
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" I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. "
Preston Sturges
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" I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. "
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" 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. "
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" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "
Elizabeth Diller
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" You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. "
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" 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. "
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" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "
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" The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet. "
Bjarke Ingels
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" Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. "
Tadao Ando
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" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "
Peter Zumthor
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Need
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" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "
Frank Gehry
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" Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. "
Walter Gropius
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Future
" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "
John Ruskin
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" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "
James Polshek
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" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "
Ben Nicholson
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" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "
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" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "
Patrick Cox
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Suits
" I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. "
Peter Eisenman
I Am
Office
Working
" What people want, above all, is order. "
Stephen Gardiner
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" 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. "
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" Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. "
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" Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. "
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" I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. "
Antony Gormley
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" 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. "
Carlos Slim
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" As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. "
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Architecture
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" Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for. "
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Know
Want
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Trying
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" I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. "
Bernard Tschumi
Regret
Never
Father