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" The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. "

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" 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

Space

" Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. "

Ma Yansong

Interested

Always

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

" Architecture is about public space held by buildings. "

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

" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "

" 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

" Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be. "

" To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment. "

" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

Frank Gehry

Places

Chicago

" For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. "

" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "

" Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Will

Epoch

Architecture

" In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy? "

" Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. "

" Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. "

" When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical. "

" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "

" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "

" Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. "

" For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. "

James Rouse

Purpose

Improvement

" Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that. "

" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

" My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. "

" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "

" Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology

Real

Architecture

" I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" 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. "

Art Garfunkel

College

Drive