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

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" The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. "

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

" When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. "

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" I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. "

" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

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

Ernest Hemingway

" My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. "

Bernard Tschumi

" You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. "

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" By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. "

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" Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "

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