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" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "
Martha Graham
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Me
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" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "
Stephen Gardiner
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" The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. "
John Irving
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" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "
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" Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes. "
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" I like the architecture of lingerie. "
Colleen Atwood
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" Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. "
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" You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. "
Michael Graves
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" Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. "
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" I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. "
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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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" Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. "
Enid Nemy
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" There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. "
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" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "
Elizabeth Diller
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" The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. "
Bernard Tschumi
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" I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. "
James Maslow
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" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "
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" 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. "
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" I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. "
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" The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. "
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" Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. "
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" When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. "
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" Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. "
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" Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. "
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" When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. "
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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. "
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" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "
Milton Friedman
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" Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. "
John Lautner
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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. "
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