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" I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. "

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" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "

Marcus Brigstocke

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" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "

" It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. "

" Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans. "

" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "

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

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" A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. "

" The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. "

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

" The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. "

" I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. "

" Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. "

" When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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" To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. "

" Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. "

" The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. "

" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "

" We have to base architecture on the environment. "

" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "

" In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. "

" Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next. "

Travis Kalanick

" The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer. "

" Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "

" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "

" The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. "

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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" I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. "

William Devane

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" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "

" I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know. "