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" 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. "

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" The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. "

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Book

Mad

Trust

" Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union. "

" Architecture is invention. "

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture

Invention

" I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. "

" 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. "

" Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. "

" My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. "

" 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 the will of an epoch translated into space. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Will

Epoch

Architecture

" We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. "

Christian de Portzamparc

Meaning

Better

Beauty

" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "

" There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. "

" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "

" When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself. "

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

" If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. "

Louis Kahn

Good

Want

" Architecture is always political. "

" There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life. "

" Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. "

" I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. "

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

" The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. "

" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "

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

" 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. "

" Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. "

" Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' "

Martin Filler

Architecture

Design

" When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. "

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

" Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. "