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" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "
Jake Barton
Architecture
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" As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. "
Clayton M. Christensen
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" We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future. "
Pierre Nanterme
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" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "
Peter Zumthor
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" Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. "
Robert Smithson
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" Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. "
Richard Meier
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" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "
Luis Barragan
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" Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. "
Frank Stella
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" Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. "
Louis Kahn
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" What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. "
Greg Lynn
Beautiful
Beauty
Nature
" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "
Emilio Ambasz
Good
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" Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. "
Tadao Ando
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" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "
Zaha Hadid
Tough
Very
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" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "
Frank Gehry
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" 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. "
Antony Gormley
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Time
" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "
Neri Oxman
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More
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" Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. "
Thomas Gibson
Shine
City
Rain
" It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. "
Oscar Niemeyer
Light
Drawing
Architecture
" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "
Janet Echelman
Architecture
Art
College
" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "
Yoshio Taniguchi
Hope
Architecture
Will
" We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. "
Alvar Aalto
Problem
City
Work
" I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. "
James Polshek
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" I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. "
Bob Dylan
Life
People
Work
" There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing. "
Martin Filler
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Housing
Movement
" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "
Arthur Erickson
Architecture
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Great
" I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. "
Tim Gunn
Know
Why
Been
" We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. "
John Ruskin
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Buildings
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" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "
Arne Jacobsen
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" Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. "
John Lautner
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Time
Life
" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "
Coco Chanel
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Fashion
Matter
" 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. "
Paul Rand
You
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Architecture