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" Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. "
Tadao Ando
Architecture
Structures
Japanese
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" 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. "
I. M. Pei
China
Architecture
Never
" Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Quality
Interesting
" Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. "
Leon Krier
Always
Better
Architecture
" Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. "
Joshua Prince-Ramus
Creation
Architecture
Fake
" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "
Renzo Piano
London
Design
World
" Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. "
Joshua Prince-Ramus
Process
Very
Definition
" In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. "
Charles Eames
Direct
More
Design
" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "
Neri Oxman
Architecture
More
Culture
" When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. "
Rudolf Steiner
Organization
Architecture
Body
" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
Frank Gehry
Place
Architecture
Time
" Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that. "
Jeff Perry
Time
Camera
Management
" The future of architecture is culture. "
Philip Johnson
Culture
Architecture
Future
" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "
Philip Johnson
Great
Architecture
Design
" As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. "
Harry von Zell
Space
Architecture
Mission
" I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. "
Shahid Khan
Architecture
Money
Early
" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "
Steve Martin
Music
Talking
Architecture
" I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. "
Daryl Hall
Antique
Architecture
Houses
" Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Interesting
Think
Good
" 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. "
Doug Aitken
Art
Literature
Up
" Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful. "
John Rocha
Me
City
Architecture
" I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater. "
Dante Ferretti
Small
Arts
Architecture
" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "
Stephen Gardiner
Problems
People
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. "
Peter Zumthor
Like
Architecture
Work
" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "
Tadao Ando
Hand
Art
Thinking
" We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. "
John Ruskin
Architecture
Buildings
Goodness
" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "
Alan Bennett
Achievement
Love
Why
" Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. "
Andrew Pyper
Winter
Isolation
Architecture
" The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. "
Bernard Tschumi
Will
Eye
Comfort
" 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. "
Sufjan Stevens
Architecture
You
World
" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "
Ernest Hemingway
Architecture
Clock
Style