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" My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. "

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" There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. "

Norman Foster

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" I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' "

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

" I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. "

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" Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. "

" A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. "

" We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. "

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" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

" When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic. "

" Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. "

" 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. "

" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "

" In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. "

" 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. "

" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "

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

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" The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. "

" The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response. "

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

" Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "

" In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. "

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" I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun. "

" I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. "

" To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment. "

" In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. "

" I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. "

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

" The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. "

" If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. "