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" I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. "

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" I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. "

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" Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. "

" If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. "

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

" The building's identity resided in the ornament. "

" 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. "

" In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. "

" Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. "

" In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. "

" 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. "

" We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. "

" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "

Martha Graham

Space

Man

" I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. "

" Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. "

" I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me. "

Michael Graves

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" All real education is the architecture of the soul. "

" What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people. "

" I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. "

" Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. "

" Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes. "

" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "

" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "

" I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. "

" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Structure

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

" When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. "

" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. "