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" I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. "

Joseph Kosinski

Creative

New York

School

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" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "

" If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Architecture

Mistake

Power

" Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. "

" 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. "

" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "

" The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. "

" The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. "

" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

American

Architecture

Living

" There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing. "

" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "

" Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. "

" 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. "

" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "

" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "

" I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. "

" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "

Alvar Aalto

Purpose

Drawing

" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "

" The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture. "

" Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. "

" Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. "

Christian de Portzamparc

Strong

Time

Architecture

" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "

" I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. "

" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "

Alexandre de Betak

Time

Architecture

" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "

" My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. "

" The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. "

Christopher Nolan

Filmmaking

Only

" Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. "

" Architecture is definitely a political act. "

" Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. "

" Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. "