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" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "
David Allan Coe
Construction
Architecture
Beauty
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" The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. "
Thomas Reid
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" We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. "
Alvar Aalto
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" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "
Alexandre de Betak
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" 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
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" You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. "
Michael Graves
Reading
Never
Architecture
" When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. "
Ma Yansong
Used
Clear
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" In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. "
Christian de Portzamparc
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" I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died. "
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Father
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Mind
" When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. "
Rudolf Steiner
Organization
Architecture
Body
" 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. "
Thom Mayne
Architecture
Communication
Change
" All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! "
T. E. Lawrence
Architecture
Bad
Will
" 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. "
Max Walker
Me
World
Freedom
" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
John Ruskin
Simple
Haughty
Architecture
" Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. "
Richard Rogers
Build
Architecture
You
" 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. "
Greg Lynn
Beautiful
Beauty
Nature
" Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. "
Peter York
Design
Jewellery
Architecture
" Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. "
Tadao Ando
Spirit
Logic
Exist
" Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. "
Audre Lorde
Change
Vision
Future
" The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building. "
Mario Botta
Architecture
Building
History
" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "
Zaha Hadid
See
Architecture
Time
" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "
Marcus Brigstocke
Sea
Beautiful
Mountains
" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "
Moshe Safdie
Architecture
Looking
Time
" I call architecture frozen music. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music
Architecture
Frozen
" Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Success
Aging
Architecture
" I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. "
David Chipperfield
Me
Architecture
Art
" I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. "
Hannah Ware
Bad
Architecture
I Am
" In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. "
Renzo Piano
Years
You
Architecture
" In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. "
Elizabeth Diller
Art
School
Architecture
" Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. "
Martin Filler
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Architecture
Profession
" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "
Goldwin Smith
Heart
Poetry
May