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" The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. "

Annabelle Selldorf

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" When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical. "

" I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old. "

" All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. "

" 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

" Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. "

" When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. "

" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "

" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. "

" Architecture is the thoughtful making of space. "

" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. "

" I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture. "

Marcus Brigstocke

" I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. "

" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "

" That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. "

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

" 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. "

" I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. "

" I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. "

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

Antoine Predock

" The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. "

" I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. "

Narciso Rodriguez

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. "

" I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. "

" Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality. "

" I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. "

" 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

" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "