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" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "

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" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "

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" Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture. "

" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "

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" Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. "

" 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. "

" As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts. "

" Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. "

" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "

" The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. "

" The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. "

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

" Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. "

" I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. "

Luis Barragan

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

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

Alan Huffman

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" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "

" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "

" In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. "

" Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "

" Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety. "

" I call architecture frozen music. "

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" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "

" 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. "

" My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. "

" I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture. "

" Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. "

" Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. "

" 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. "

" Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. "