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" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "

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" Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. "

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

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" I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature. "

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" We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. "

" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "

" 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. "

" I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. "

Giambattista Valli

" I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. "

" Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. "

" I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. "

Francisco Costa

" 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

" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "

" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. "

" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "

" It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise. "

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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. "

" I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. "

" I don't believe in morality in architecture. "

" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that. "

" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "

" The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. "

" The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. "

" Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. "

" Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. "

" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "

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