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" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

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" Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse. "

Elizabeth Diller

" 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. "

" 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

" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. "

" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "

" 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. "

" The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. "

Iain McGilchrist

" Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. "

" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "

" Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. "

" Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next. "

Travis Kalanick

" I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. "

" Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. "

Elizabeth Diller

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

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

Hubert de Givenchy

" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "

" We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "

" When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture. "

Jonathan Anderson

" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "

Arthur Erickson

" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "

" Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. "

David Chipperfield

" The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. "

" I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. "

" Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. "

" 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. "

" The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. "

" The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. "