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" The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. "
Iain McGilchrist
Invention
Late
Possible
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" Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. "
Tadao Ando
Man
Experience
Architecture
" Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Two
Together
Architecture
" We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture. "
Rob Pike
Problems
Think
Believe
" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "
Arthur Erickson
Architecture
Unique
Great
" In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. "
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Computers
System
Control
" 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
Creative
New York
School
" Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. "
Ma Yansong
Interested
Me
Always
" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "
Jake Barton
Architecture
Moving
People
" I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. "
I. M. Pei
America
Life
Me
" The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. "
Iain McGilchrist
Metaphysics
Truth
Physics
" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "
Renzo Piano
London
Design
World
" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Slow
Structure
Architecture
" In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services. "
Alex Biryukov
Long-Term
Architecture
Web
" I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. "
Hannah Ware
Bad
Architecture
I Am
" In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. "
Nancy Banks Smith
You
Architecture
Door
" Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. "
John Howe
Culture
Art
History
" The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. "
Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture
You
Dreams
" Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. "
Arthur Erickson
Always
Space
Spiritual
" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Politics
Say
Time
" 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. "
Philip Johnson
Talking
You
Feel
" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "
Steven Holl
Architecture
Intense
I Think
" I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. "
Dexter Fletcher
Walking
Love
Beautiful
" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
Frank Gehry
Place
Architecture
Time
" I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Planning
Acting
Architecture
" We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. "
John Ruskin
Architecture
Buildings
Goodness
" The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. "
Harry Seidler
Use
Arch
Architecture
" For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. "
Michael Graves
Architecture
Live
Myself
" In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. "
Delia Ephron
Architecture
Time
You
" 'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience. "
Doug Aitken
Language
Culture
Architecture
" When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. "
Ma Yansong
World
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Thought