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" 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. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Quality
Interesting
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" I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. "
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" Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. "
Thom Mayne
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" Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. "
Elizabeth Diller
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" The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. "
Tadao Ando
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Wonder
" Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' "
Antoine Predock
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Together
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" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "
Arne Jacobsen
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" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "
Renzo Piano
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" As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. "
Mary Lou Jepsen
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Ready
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" Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. "
Elizabeth Diller
Am
I Am
Architecture
" I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. "
Doug TenNapel
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Believe
" The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. "
Martin Filler
Truth
Architecture
City
" The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. "
Alvar Aalto
True
Natural
Architecture
" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Time
" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "
Antoni Gaudi
Architecture
Nature
Look
" The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. "
Thomas a Kempis
Building
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Foundation
" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "
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Two
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" After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. "
Harry Seidler
Italy
Much
Visual
" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "
Ma Yansong
Architecture
Nature
Trying
" I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. "
Michael Graves
Architecture
Building
Worst
" Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. "
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" In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. "
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Society
" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "
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" I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. "
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" Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. "
Andrew Pyper
Winter
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" A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. "
Antoine Predock
Responsibility
Great
Animal
" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "
Cameron Sinclair
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" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "
Stephen Gardiner
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People
Architecture
" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "
Alvar Aalto
Me
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