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" The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. "

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" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "

Alexandre de Betak

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. "

" I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. "

" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "

" In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. "

" We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. "

Winston Churchill

" Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression. "

Leonard Mlodinow

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

" Less is more. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. "

Michael Lomenda

" I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. "

" But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. "

Stephen Sprouse

" 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

" The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. "

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

" Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. "

" If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world. "

" The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. "

" In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. "

" Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. "

" A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. "

" There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. "

James Henry Breasted

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

" Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. "

" 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. "

" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "

" You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. "

Walter Russell Mead