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" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "

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" Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. "

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

" If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. "

" I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. "

" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "

" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "

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" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "

" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "

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

" We need architects to be visionaries. "

" Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. "

" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "

" For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. "

" Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. "

Stephen Gardiner

" Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. "

" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "

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" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "

" I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. "

" Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. "

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" Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "

" Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. "

" The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. "