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" Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. "

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" Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. "

" If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. "

" Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. "

" 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. "

" Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. "

" Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. "

Christian Louboutin

" 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. "

" I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. "

" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "

" I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with. "

" Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. "

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

Hayden Christensen

" I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. "

Nico Tortorella

" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "

" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "

" Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. "

" Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. "

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

Francisco Costa

" Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. "

" You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. "

" 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. "

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

Joseph Altuzarra

" A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. "

David Chipperfield

" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "

" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. "

Nancy Banks Smith

" I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. "