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" The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples. "
Carlos Slim
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Beauty
Architecture
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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. "
David Harewood
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" 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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" The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. "
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" The biggest things in life are not materials. "
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" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "
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" The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
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" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "
Zaha Hadid
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" The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer. "
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" Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. "
Jay Griffiths
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" The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. "
Voltaire
Architecture
Greatest
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" In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. "
Delia Ephron
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" To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses. "
Mario Botta
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Me
Small
" There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing. "
Martin Filler
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" Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. "
Stephen Gardiner
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Most
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" Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. "
Stefan Sagmeister
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" 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. "
Maya Lin
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You
" I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. "
Philip Warren Anderson
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" Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. "
Charles Jencks
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Only
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" I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. "
Antoine Predock
Architecture
Me
Think
" The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. "
Isabella Lovin
Much
Building
Green
" 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
" 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. "
Donald Barthelme
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" In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. "
Christian de Portzamparc
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" We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future. "
Pierre Nanterme
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Innovation
Future
" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "
I. M. Pei
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" Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. "
Robert Lepage
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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "
Justin Peck
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" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "
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" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "
Kenzo Tange
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Special
Planning
" I'm very interested in architecture. "
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