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

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" I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. "

" I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. "

David Chipperfield

" I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. "

Giambattista Valli

" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "

" Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. "

Elizabeth Diller

" I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

" Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. "

Theodor Mommsen

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

Hubert de Givenchy

" 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. "

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. "

" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "

" I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. "

" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "

Daniel Libeskind

" The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. "

" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "

" I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture. "

" With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. "

" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "

" 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. "

" A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. "

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

" There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. "

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

" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing. "