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" The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. "

Antoine Predock

Dance

Architecture

" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "

" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. "

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

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

" When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. "

" The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. "

" The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "

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

" Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. "

" I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' "

" We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body. "

" Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. "

" Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. "

" I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown. "

" When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

" Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "

" Architecture is invention. "

Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture

Invention

" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "

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

" I call architecture frozen music. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music

Architecture

Frozen

" I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. "

" I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. "

William Devane

Architecture

People

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations. "

" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "

" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "

" I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks. "