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" 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
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" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "
Zaha Hadid
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You
Place
" Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. "
Elizabeth Diller
Politics
Technology
Architecture
" Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. "
Thom Mayne
Beginning
Process
Cake
" I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. "
Bjarke Ingels
Architecture
Life
Think
" 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
" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "
Henry David Thoreau
Without
Nor
Cellar
" Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Culture
Nature
" What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. "
Tony Hale
Go
White
You
" Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Progress
Architecture
Struggle
" You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. "
Thom Mayne
Experience
Architecture
Space
" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "
Sydney Pollack
Light
People
Time
" 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
" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Any
Ideology
Political
" Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. "
Richard Meier
Work
Architecture
Good
" 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
Architecture
Old
City
" Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. "
Michael Lomenda
Architecture
Always
Side
" There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. "
Philip Treacy
Mathematics
Face
Architecture
" To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. "
I. M. Pei
Me
Architecture
Free
" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "
Ian Mckellen
Friend
Life
You
" My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. "
Bernard Tschumi
Things
You
Architecture
" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "
Zaha Hadid
Tough
Very
Architecture
" I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse. "
Elizabeth Diller
Build
Rebel
Thought
" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "
Ayn Rand
Architecture
Integrity
Man
" Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. "
John Portman
Environmental
Past
Architecture
" I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. "
Peter Eisenman
I Am
Office
Working
" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
Frank Gehry
Place
Architecture
Time
" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "
Renzo Piano
Father
Family
Building
" Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations. "
Jack Dangermond
Architecture
World
Done
" When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation. "
Renzo Piano
Feet
Dream
Student
" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "
I. M. Pei
Think
Artist
Me