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" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "

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" Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. "

Frei Otto

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" Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. "

" I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. "

" 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. "

" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "

" 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. "

" I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. "

James Polshek

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" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "

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

" At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. "

" The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. "

" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "

" I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. "

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

" Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. "

" In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. "

" When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. "

" The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. "

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

" I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old. "

" I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. "

Antoine Predock

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" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

" The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. "

" Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. "

Antoni Gaudi

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" Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? "

" When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial. "

" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. "

" The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. "