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" The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. "

Federico Garcia Lorca

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" 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. "

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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

Alexandre de Betak

" The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. "

" I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. "

" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

" There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. "

Annabelle Selldorf

" For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. "

" Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. "

Annabelle Selldorf

" In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. "

Pierre Nanterme

" Less is more. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Joseph Kosinski

" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "

" The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. "

" The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. "

" If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "

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

" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

" I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. "

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

" I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. "

" The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. "

" People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. "

" They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. "

" The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. "

" To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. "

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "