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" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

City

Great

Architecture

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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" The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. "

" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "

" Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. "

" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "

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

" Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. "

" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "

" Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. "

" The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. "

" I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. "

" The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. "

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

" The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. "

" After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. "

" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "

Robert Lepage

School

Architecture

" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "

" For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. "

Mario Botta

Dream

Architecture

" Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give Me

Give

" Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. "

" Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. "

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "

" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "

" Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part. "

" I am but an architectural composer. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

Composer

I Am

" I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. "

" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "

Michael Tilson Thomas

Kind

Mean

Time

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "

" Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral. "