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" We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. "
Alvar Aalto
Problem
City
Work
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" Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. "
Frei Otto
Nature
Architecture
Think
" I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. "
Arne Jacobsen
See
Architecture
Buildings
" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "
Frank Gehry
Architecture
World
Vacation
" Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Will
Epoch
Architecture
" When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. "
Ma Yansong
Science
Thought
School
" Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind. "
Pranav Mistry
Mind
Architecture
Technology
" Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. "
Richard Meier
Architecture
Time
Rome
" When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. "
Roman Coppola
Architecture
Art
Big
" When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay. "
Joanna Going
Loved
School
Architecture
" I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "
Maya Lin
Choose
Art
Architecture
" All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! "
T. E. Lawrence
Architecture
Bad
Will
" To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. "
Le Corbusier
Create
Objects
Order
" The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. "
Martin Filler
Truth
Architecture
City
" The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Eye
Secret
" The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response. "
Ma Yansong
Work
Time
Long
" 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
Student
Architecture
Been
" I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture. "
Sharon Horgan
Architecture
Love
Beautiful
" The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. "
Michael Graves
Century
Book
Architecture
" 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
Building
Great
Architecture
" I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. "
David Chipperfield
Me
Architecture
Art
" I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. "
Narciso Rodriguez
Architecture
Always
Buildings
" Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. "
Louis Kahn
Architecture
Truth
Out
" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "
Larry Wall
Think
Architecture
Music
" I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. "
James Polshek
Boy
Architecture
Bad
" Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. "
Alvar Aalto
Italian
Begins
Journey
" I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' "
Peter Marino
Beginning
Architecture
Myself
" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "
John Rocha
Fashion
Architecture
Interested
" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
City
Great
Architecture
" The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. "
Peter Eisenman
Power
Architecture
Less
" Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. "
David Chipperfield
You
Architecture
Bargain