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" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

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" Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be. "

" Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? "

Arthur Erickson

" Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. "

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

" I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. "

" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "

" What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. "

" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "

" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "

Kersti Kaljulaid

" Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

" All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. "

" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "

" 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. "

Elizabeth Diller

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

Hayden Christensen

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "

" The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "

" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University. "

" 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. "

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

Preston Sturges

" A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings. "

" Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements. "

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. "

" There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. "

" 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. "

" For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. "

" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "

Constantin Brancusi