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" Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. "

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" 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. "

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "

" First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. "

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" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "

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

Ernest Hemingway

" If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. "

" Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. "

" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "

Michael Tilson Thomas

" Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it. "

" Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. "

" 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. "

" The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. "

" After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing. "

" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "

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

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

Preston Sturges

" Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth. "

" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

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" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "

" People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. "

" In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. "

" I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. "

" Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. "

" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "

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

" Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. "

" The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. "

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