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" The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. "

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" Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for. "

" I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. "

Thomas Heatherwick

" Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. "

" I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. "

Francisco Costa

" I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. "

Antoine Predock

" You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. "

" Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. "

" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "

Milton Friedman

" In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. "

Pierre Nanterme

" Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. "

" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "

" I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. "

" Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. "

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

" To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. "

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

" When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial. "

Annabelle Selldorf

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "

" I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. "

" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "

" When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years. "

" The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. "

" Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. "

" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "

" A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. "

David Chipperfield