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" Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for. "

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" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "

" The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. "

" There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. "

" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "

" Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. "

" I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. "

" Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. "

" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "

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

" I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. "

" I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' "

" Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it. "

" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "

" You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. "

" Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. "

" 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. "

" The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "

" I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. "

" That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. "

" Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. "

" 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. "

" What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. "

" My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. "

" First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. "

" As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist. "

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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