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" Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. "
Tadao Ando
Architecture
Spiritual
Culture
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" I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. "
Edgardo Osorio
Architecture
New York
Dream
" 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
Great
Architecture
Live
" New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. "
Ruta Sepetys
City
Music
Food
" One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. "
Martin Filler
Architecture
Who
People
" 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
" Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion. "
Sarah Parcak
Religion
Architecture
Time
" The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. "
Bernard Tschumi
Architecture
Limits
Ultimate
" Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. "
Moshe Safdie
Fashion
World
Timeless
" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "
Alan Bennett
Achievement
Love
Why
" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "
Lee Radziwill
Color
Been
Art
" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "
Winston Churchill
Buildings
Architecture
Our
" I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial. "
Rafael Moneo
Understand
History
Architecture
" 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. "
David Harewood
Architecture
Culture
History
" I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Planning
Acting
Architecture
" Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part. "
Rudolf Steiner
Architecture
World
Wish
" The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. "
Federico Garcia Lorca
Architecture
Human
Rhythm
" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "
Patricia Marx
Architecture
Start
Culture
" There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. "
Moshe Safdie
Architecture
Profound
Different
" Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. "
Luis Barragan
Environment
Architecture
Art
" I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. "
James Polshek
Architecture
Think
Me
" I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture. "
Max Walker
Me
World
Freedom
" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "
Renzo Piano
Criticism
You
Harmony
" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "
Zaha Hadid
Architecture
Effort
People
" Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. "
Peter Zumthor
Architecture
Care
Me
" That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. "
Jim Woodring
Library
People
Place
" There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. "
Philip Treacy
Mathematics
Face
Architecture
" We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. "
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture
Build
Buildings
" Architecture is always political. "
Richard Rogers
Political
Always
Architecture
" There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space. "
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Work
Good
Live
" I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach. "
Chelsea Cain
Love
Great
Beach