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" If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that. "

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" I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. "

Cesar Pelli

You

Architecture

Design

" In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. "

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

" I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. "

" Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. "

" 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

Architecture

People

" Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that. "

" The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. "

" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "

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

" The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. "

" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "

" The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. "

" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "

" Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture. "

" I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. "

" I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. "

" Each new situation requires a new architecture. "

" I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. "

" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "

" Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. "

" Architecture is definitely a political act. "

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

Alexander Jackson Davis

American

Architecture

Living

" An important work of architecture will create polemics. "

" 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. "

Doug Aitken

Art

Literature

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

Mario Botta

Dream

Architecture

" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Politics

Say

Time

" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "

" If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve. "

" I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial. "