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" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. "

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" Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. "

" 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. "

" Less is more. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings. "

" You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. "

Walter Russell Mead

" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "

" There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. "

" I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. "

" Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. "

" For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. "

" I don't believe in morality in architecture. "

" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "

" 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. "

" OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. "

" We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future. "

Pierre Nanterme

" I'm very interested in architecture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. "

" When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. "

" I am but an architectural composer. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "

Arthur Erickson

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

" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "

Charlotte Bunch

" A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. "

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "