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" In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. "

Joseph Altuzarra

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" Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements. "

" Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? "

" But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. "

" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "

" I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. "

" Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "

" I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. "

" The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. "

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

" Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. "

" Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. "

" Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. "

" I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. "

Hubert de Givenchy

" I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. "

" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "

" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "

Abagail Johnson

" Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Annabelle Selldorf

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

" The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "

" Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. "

" A lasting architecture has to have roots. "

" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Architecture aims at Eternity. "

Christopher Wren

" I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. "

Nico Tortorella

" I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. "