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" Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. "

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" It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. "

John Ruskin

Beautiful

Great

Architecture

" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "

" 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. "

" Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. "

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

" I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. "

" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Politics

Say

Time

" I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. "

" When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. "

" All real education is the architecture of the soul. "

" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. "

" I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. "

" I call architecture frozen music. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music

Architecture

Frozen

" I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. "

" I have no requirements for a style of architecture. "

" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. "

" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "

" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "

" My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. "

" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "

" To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. "

" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

" Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. "

Frank Gehry

Architecture

City

" You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. "

" I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. "

" 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. "

" The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities. "

" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "

I. M. Pei

Think

Artist