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" There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. "
Philip Treacy
Mathematics
Face
Architecture
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" My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. "
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" Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. "
Amanda Hearst
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" I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. "
Janet Echelman
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" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "
Frank Gehry
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" I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. "
Imogen Poots
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" Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected. "
David Chipperfield
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" I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. "
Peter Zumthor
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" Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. "
Trevor Paglen
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" Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. "
Alan Huffman
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" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "
Zaha Hadid
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Very
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" Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. "
Richard Rogers
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" I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. "
Glenn Ligon
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Live
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" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "
Zaha Hadid
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" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "
Peter Zumthor
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Need
Good
" Architecture is art, nothing else. "
Philip Johnson
Else
Nothing
Art
" Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. "
Maya Lin
Architecture
Art
Me
" Architecture is invention. "
Oscar Niemeyer
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Invention
" I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. "
Charlie Rose
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" I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. "
David Harewood
Architecture
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" I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. "
Peter Zumthor
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Work
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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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" 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. "
Magnus Larsson
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" I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. "
Giambattista Valli
Architecture
Style
Work
" Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety. "
Hisham Matar
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" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "
Oksana Baiul
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" 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? "
Neri Oxman
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" As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. "
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" New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. "
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" Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. "
Audre Lorde
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" Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. "
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