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" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "

Ernest Hemingway

Architecture

Clock

Style

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" 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. "

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "

Alvar Aalto

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Drawing

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. "

" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "

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

" We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. "

" There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. "

Ernest Hemingway

Rock

Out

" Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. "

" I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. "

" I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. "

" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "

" To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. "

I. M. Pei

Architecture

Free

" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "

" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

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

" It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. "

" It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. "

" Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. "

" 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

" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "

" Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. "

" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "

" Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. "

" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "

" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "

" There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. "