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" I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. "

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" For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. "

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

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" Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. "

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

" Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. "

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" The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. "

" 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. "

" Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. "

" There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. "

" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "

" The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building. "

" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

" I think architecture has to be a gift. "

" I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. "

Preston Sturges

" I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. "

" The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language. "

" It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

Hayden Christensen

" I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. "

" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "

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" 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. "

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

" I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. "

" It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? "

" I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. "

" The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. "

" Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. "

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