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" The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. "

Stephen Gardiner

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" Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. "

" I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture. "

Lidia Bastianich

" You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. "

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

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

" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "

" 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. "

" You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. "

" I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. "

Hubert de Givenchy

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

" Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. "

" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "

" I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around. "

" 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. "

" I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. "

George Hickenlooper

" Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. "

" I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. "

Jonathan Hickman

" I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. "

" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

" There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. "

" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "

" All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! "

" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. "

" In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. "

" 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. "

" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" 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. "

" Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors. "