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" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

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

" Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape. "

" Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. "

" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "

" In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. "

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

" Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. "

" The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. "

" My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. "

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" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "

" Architecture is politics. "

" Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. "

" What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. "

" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "

Michael Tilson Thomas

" Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. "

" To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. "

" Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. "

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

" I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. "

" I love art in general - architecture, anything creative. "

" I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. "

Jonathan Hickman

" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "

" I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. "

Hussein Chalayan

" 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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" The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. "

" It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. "

" To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. "

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