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" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "

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Kelly Wearstler

" I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. "

" The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect. "

" We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip. "

" I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. "

" Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements. "

" Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. "

Joseph Kosinski

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' "

" Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. "

Elizabeth Diller

" As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. "

" The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. "

" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "

" Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. "

" My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. "

Taylor Schilling

" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "

" I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. "

" In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. "

" 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. "

Marco Brambilla

" Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. "

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Thomas Heatherwick

" The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. "

" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "

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

Elizabeth Diller

" Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. "

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" If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. "

" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "

Daniel Libeskind

" 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. "