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" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape. "

" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "

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

" Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. "

Elizabeth Diller

" The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. "

" In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy? "

" Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. "

" Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. "

" Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. "

Abigail Johnson

" The building's identity resided in the ornament. "

" 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. "

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

Joseph Kosinski

" The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. "

Antoine Predock

" Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. "

" It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. "

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" Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. "

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" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. "

" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "

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" There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space. "

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

" Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "

" My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. "

" People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. "

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" Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. "

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

" With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. "

" What people want, above all, is order. "

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