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

Cameron Sinclair

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" You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. "

" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "

James P. Gorman

" We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. "

" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

Hayden Christensen

" As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution. "

" As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much. "

" Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland. "

" Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. "

" I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. "

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

" In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. "

" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "

" Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "

" Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. "

" I am but an architectural composer. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "

" The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. "

" Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. "

" To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting. "

" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "

" My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. "

" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "

" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "

" Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral. "

" It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. "

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

" I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. "

" What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. "

" So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" 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