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" The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. "

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" Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. "

Renzo Piano

People

Place

Architecture

" Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. "

" As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. "

Nathaniel Kahn

Child

Kind

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

" Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. "

" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "

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

" What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. "

" Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. "

" When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay. "

" Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. "

" In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. "

" 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. "

" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "

" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "

" The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. "

" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "

" 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. "

" Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. "

" Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. "

" Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. "

" 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! "

" To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses. "

Mario Botta

Architecture

Small

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

" Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? "

" I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. "

" If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. "

" Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology

Real

Architecture

" 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

School

Time

" My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. "