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" Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. "

Christian Louboutin

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" Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. "

" Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. "

" It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. "

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

" I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. "

" Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. "

" After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. "

" I call architecture frozen music. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture. "

" 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

" The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. "

Robert A. M. Stern

" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "

" To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. "

Daniel Libeskind

" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "

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

" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "

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

Elizabeth Diller

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "

" There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. "

" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "

" Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. "

" A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. "

David Chipperfield

" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "

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

" 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. "

" Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. "

Stephen Gardiner

" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

Hayden Christensen

" To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art. "