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" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "

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David Chipperfield

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" I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. "

" Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. "

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David Chipperfield

" I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. "

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Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. "

" Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. "

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Antoine Predock

" To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. "

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Winston Churchill

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

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" In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. "