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" Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. "

Stephen Gardiner

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" In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. "

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" Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. "

" I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it. "

" Architecture begins where engineering ends. "

" I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. "

" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

Hayden Christensen

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

Parker Stevenson

" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "

" Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that. "

" I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. "

" Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. "

" Whatever good things we build end up building us. "

" The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. "

Michael Hansmeyer

" 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

" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "

Elizabeth Diller

" Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. "

" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "

" 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. "

" You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. "

Walter Russell Mead

" 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. "

" Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. "

Thomas Heatherwick

" I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun. "

" A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. "

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