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" There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. "
Edwin Lutyens
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" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "
John Rocha
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" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "
Zaha Hadid
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" Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. "
Harry Seidler
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" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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" 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. "
Richard Rogers
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" 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. "
Ma Yansong
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" I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. "
Donna Karan
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" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "
Sufjan Stevens
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" In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. "
Bjarke Ingels
Live
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Art
" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "
Salvador Dali
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" Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. "
Steven Holl
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" If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. "
Paul Rand
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" Architecture is definitely a political act. "
Peter Eisenman
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Definitely
" Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture. "
Thomas Heatherwick
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" I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. "
Anouska Hempel
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" Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. "
Herbert Simon
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" There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Imagination
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Clouds
" 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
Me
Kind
" 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. "
Stanley B. Prusiner
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History
Economics
" The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. "
Cameron Sinclair
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" Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
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" The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. "
Doug Aitken
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Up
" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "
Walter Gropius
Where
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Begins
" In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. "
Alain Robert
Climb
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" I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. "
Piet Mondrian
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Architecture
Time
" Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. "
Richard Rogers
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" Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. "
Bryant H. McGill
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" I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me. "
Michael Graves
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Design
" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "
Elizabeth Diller
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Been