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" Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. "

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

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" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "

" In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. "

" Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. "

" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. "

Maya Lin

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" When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. "

" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "

" The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. "

" I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. "

" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "

" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "

" I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. "

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" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "

" My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. "

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" The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. "

" Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. "

" Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. "

" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "

" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "

" With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. "

" I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. "

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" In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. "

" Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. "

" Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. "

" Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. "

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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. "

" Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. "

" 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. "

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

" The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

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