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" The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. "

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" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "

" Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. "

" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "

" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "

" 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. "

" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "

" The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. "

" Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere. "

" I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. "

" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "

" 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 will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. "

" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "

Elizabeth Diller

" Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. "

" 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. "

" The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. "

" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "

" I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. "

" I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design. "

" I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. "

Joseph Kosinski

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

" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "

" The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. "

" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. "

" I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. "

" I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. "

" 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. "

" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "